Thaumatichthys axeli (Bruun, 1953)

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 : 89

Thaumatichthys axeli (Bruun, 1953) .

To 36.5 cm ( 14.4 in) SL. Two known specimens: one from Patton escarpment, well off southern California; the other from 9°23’N, 87°32’W. Both specimens from deep water; the southern California fish was taken in an otter trawl at 3,578–3,671 m ( 11,736–12,041 ft), the second fish in a herring otter trawl at 3,570 m ( 11,710 ft). All in Bertelsen and Struhsaker (1977).