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midwater eelpout
Melanostigma pammelas Gilbert, 1896
Also calledViruela-pelágica (por) · mollasse noire (fra) · viruela carbonera (spa)
First described in: Gilbert, C. H. (1896). The ichthyological collections of the steamer Albatross during the years 1890 and 1891. <em>United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Report of the Commissioner.</em> v. 19 (for 1893) (art. 6): 393-476, Pls. 20-35.
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description
Midwater Eelpout or Pacific Softpout. To 12.2 cm (4.8 in) SL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California); 13.3 cm (5.2 in) TL (Lancraft 1982). South of Umnak-Unalaska Islands (53 ° 25 ’ N, 168 ° 10 ’ W) (Maslenikov et al. 2013) to Gulf of Tehuantepec, Mexico (Anderson 1994). Mesopelagic and possibly bathypelagic; depth: collected in nets towed from 91 – 2,012 m (298 – 6,601 ft) (min.: Kamikawa 2017; max.: Mecklenburg et al. 2002).
Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5209498.