Bathylagus pacificus Gilbert, 1890

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Bathylagus pacificus Gilbert, 1890 .

Pacific Blacksmelt or Slender Blacksmelt. To about 25 cm (10 in) SL ( Fitch and Lavenberg 1968). Southern Japan and Sea of Okhotsk (Kanayama in Amaoka et al. 1983) to southern Bering Sea to off Bahía Magdalena (24°10.9’N, 113°06.9’W), southern Baja California (Personal Communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), Gulf of California (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), and 02°36’N, 112°57’W (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Adults generally in lower mesopelagic and bathypelagic and not ascending to epipelagic depths; depth: 150 to perhaps about 4,100 m (492–13,448 ft) (min.: Mecklenburg et al. 2002; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). The maximum depth of 7,700 m (25,256 ft) (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) is considered unlikely and probably reflects “incidental catches during trawl hauling to the surface” ( Fujii et al. 2010).