Melanocetus johnsonii Günther, 1864

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Melanocetus johnsonii Günther, 1864 .

Blackdevil. To 15.4 cm ( 6.1 in) SL (Theodore Pietsch), 18 cm ( 7.1 in) TL ( Pietsch 1986). A record of 64 cm ( 25.2 in) SL ( Kong and Meléndez 1991) is an error. Circumglobal (Pietsch in Smith and Heemstra 1986); western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002) and Russian North Pacific ( Orlov and Tokranov 2019); as far north as off British Columbia ( 48°41’N, 126°30’W) ( Weil et al. 2015) and south to northern Chile ( 31°14’S) ( Kong and Meléndez 1991). Depth: about 100–3,603 m ( 328–11,818 ft) (min.: Bertelsen in Whitehead et al. 1986; max.: Porteiro et al. 2017). A record of 4,500 m ( 14,760 ft) ( Froese and Pauly 2019) is an error (Theodore Pietsch).