Cryptopsaras couesii Gill, 1883

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 : 90

Cryptopsaras couesii Gill, 1883 .

Triplewart Seadevil. To 35.8 cm (14.1 in) TL ( Pietsch 2009). Circumglobal, with overall latitudinal range of 63°N to 43°S ( Pietsch 1986); Greenland; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan; New Zealand; Hawai’i ( Pietsch 1986); British Columbia (49°29’N, 127°17’W) ( Weil et al. 2015) to Peru ( Pietsch 1986). Depth: 75–4,000 m (246–13,123 ft), but mostly taken at 500–1,250 m (1,640 –4,101 ft) ( Pietsch 1986); reported at surface ( Orlov and Tokranov 2019), but without documentation. Based on analyses of mtDNA, Bañón et al. (2019) found that Pacific and Atlantic specimens might represent cryptic species.