Poromitra crassiceps (Günther, 1878)

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 : 98

Poromitra crassiceps (Günther, 1878) .

Crested Bigscale or Crested Ridgehead. To 19 cm ( 7.5 in) SL ( Kotlyar, 2009). Atlantic, Pacific, and Southern Oceans ( Fricke et al. 2020); western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984), and Russian north-western Pacific Ocean ( Orlov and Tokranov 2019), to southern Bering Sea, and Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), to Chile ( Pequeño 1989). Primarily mesopelagic and bathypelagic; depth: 0–4,000 m ( 13,120 ft) ( Orlov and Tokranov 2019). Considered a separate species, Poromitra rugosa (Chapman, 1939) , by some authors. However, we follow Robertson et al. (2017) and consider this P. crassiceps . This species was split into many taxa by Kotlyar (2009).