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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderOsmeriformes
  4. ›familyAlepocephalidae
  5. ›genusBathytroctes
Bathytroctes macrolepis
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Koefoed's Smooth-head

Bathytroctes macrolepis Günther, 1887

Also calledisosuomusilopää (fin) · uzlatka velkošupinná (ces) · Беллоция Кофуда (rus)

First described in: Günther, A. (1887). Report on the deep-sea fishes collected by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873-76. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H. M. S. Challenger.</em> v. 22 (pt 57): i-lxv + 1-268, Pls. 1-66.

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

description

40 cm (15.7 in) SL (Froese and Pauly 2019; note that we were unable to verify this record). Circumglobal; about 290 km (179.8 mi) west of Cape Mendocino, northern California (Stein 1985, as Belocia alvifrons) to Islas Tres Marias (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California); Chile (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Depth: about 740 to 5,850 m (2,427 – 19,188 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Sazonov 1999).

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 5214349.