Blackchin Deepsea Smelt

description

To 10.5 cm (4.1 in) SL (Kobyliansky 1985). Equatorial and tropical waters of Indo-Pacific (Kobyliansky 1985); southern California (32 ° 45 ’ N, 118 ° 54 ’ W) (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California) to Chile (Pequeño 1989), including Gulf of California. Depth: surface (night light, Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 91 to perhaps 1,095 m (300 – 3,593 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Adults usually at depths of 200 – 300 m (Kobyliansky 1985).

Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico