Mentodus facilis (Parr, 1951)

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 50

Mentodus facilis (Parr, 1951) .

12.5 cm ( 4.9 in) SL ( Quéro et al. 1990). Circumglobal ( Fricke et al. 2020); Southern California ( 33°45’N, 119°37’W) (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California) to Punta Abreojos, southern Baja California (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California), also Gulf of California (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California), and Peru (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California). Mesopelagic and bathypelagic; depth: 650–2,300 m ( 2,132 –7,544 ft) (min.: Orrell and Hartel in Carpenter and De Angelis 2016; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California).