Aristostomias scintillans ( Gilbert, 1915 )

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 : 58

Aristostomias scintillans ( Gilbert, 1915) .

Shining Loosejaw. To 23 cm (9 in) TL ( Fitch and Lavenberg 1968). Russian north-western Pacific ( Orlov and Tokranov 2019); Gulf of Alaska (59°09’N, 146°06’W) ( Stevenson et al. 2009) to southern Baja California (23°17’N, 120°33’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California); also near equator (7°N) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Report from Bering Sea probably in error (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Depth: 29–1,357 m (95–4,451 ft) (min.: Aron 1960; max.: NWFSC-FRAM), and perhaps surface ( Orlov and Tokranov 2019) and 2,001 m (6,563 ft) ( Milkova et al. 2016).