Coryphaenoides leptolepis Günther, 1877

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 : 77

Coryphaenoides leptolepis Günther, 1877 .

Ghostly Grenadier. To 62 cm ( 24.4 in) TL or more (Geistdoerfer in Quéro et al. 1990). Atlantic and Pacific Oceans; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan ( Iwamoto and Stein 1974); west of Prince of Wales Island in Gulf of Alaska (Bean 1890; locality corrected in Mecklenburg et al. 2002), and off Dixon Entrance, northern British Columbia ( Love et al. 2005) to southwest of Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California ( Iwamoto and Stein 1974). Benthopelagic; depth: 145–4,300 m ( 476–14,104 ft) (min.: Benson and McFarlane 2008; max.: Gaither et al. 2016). In subgenus Chalinura , which some authors treat as a genus. This account includes Coryphaenoides ( Chalinura) liocephalus (Günther, 1887) in the synonymy of C. leptolepis . The two forms could be distinct (although currently this is not considered likely), in which case C. liocephalus would be the name for the Pacific species; see discussion and citations in Mecklenburg et al. (2002).