Myctophum obtusirostre Tåning, 1928

Fermon, Yves, Bailly, Nicolas, Cardiec, Floriane, Causse, Romain, Chartrain, Emmanuel, Chirio, Laurent, Bruyne, Godefroy De, Deynat, Pascal, Hopkins, Carl D., Lamboj, Anton, Mennesson, Marion I., Beh, Jean-Hervé Mve, Paugy, Didier, Sidlauskas, Brian, Sullivan, John P., Weghe, Jean-Pierre Van De, Vigliotta, Thomas R. & Zee, Jouke Van Der, 2022, An annotated checklist of the fishes of Gabon, Cybium 46 (2), pp. 2-3 : 193

Myctophum obtusirostre Tåning, 1928

Occurrence: native

Maximum length: 9 cm TL

Water type: marine

Environment: mesopelagic

Depth range: 0-700 m

Migration: oceanodromous

IUCN status: LC – Least concern (2015)

Source: bibliography

Distribution and remarks: East Atlantic: known from Mauritania to Angola, found in the area between 22°N- 11°S, but it is apparently absent in equatorial waters and in the eastern south Atlantic. Doubtful for the genus: Dasyscopelus as D. obtusirostris according to Martin et al., 2018.