Benthosema pterotum (Alcock, 1890)

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 : 66

* Benthosema pterotum (Alcock, 1890) .

To 5.5 cm (2.2 in) SL. Indo-Pacific (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002); western Pacific Ocean north to central Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002). While adults have not been collected within our range, larvae identified as this species have been taken as far north as Isla de Cedros, central Baja California ( Moser et al. 1994). Mesopelagic; depth: 10–300 m (33–984 ft) ( Fricke et al. 2019).