Ichthyococcus ovatus (Cocco, 1838)

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 : 170

Ichthyococcus ovatus (Cocco, 1838)

Occurrence: possible

Maximum length: 5.5 cm SL

Water type: marine

Environment: bathypelagic

Depth range: 0-2500 m

Migration: unknown

IUCN status: LC – Least concern (2015)

Source: bibliography

Distribution and remarks: circumglobal, subtropical to temperate. Eastern Atlantic: known from scattered records along Azores and the Mediterranean, from Portugal south to Canary Islands, occurs from Cape Verde Islands, south to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including the Gulf of Guinea Islands, as well as off Angola and Namibia.