Lepidopus fitchi Rosenblatt & Wilson, 1987

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 210

Lepidopus fitchi Rosenblatt & Wilson, 1987 .

Black Scabbardfish or Pacific Scabbardfish. To 210 cm (82.7 in) SL (Nakamura in Fischer et al. 1995). Off Newport, Oregon (Jonathan Cusick, pers. comm. to M.L.) to southern Peru ( Chirichigno and Vélez 1998) , including Gulf of California (Nakamura in Fischer et al. 1995). No collections appear to have been made between 20°N and 5° N and Rosenblatt and Wilson (1987) speculate that this is an example of antitropical distribution. Benthopelagic; depth: adults 150–500 m (492–1,640 ft) (min.: Rosenblatt and Wilson 1987; max.: Fitch and Lavenberg 1968), and perhaps to 1,080 m (3,542 ft) ( Bradburn et al. 2011). The latter record is from a capture made by a bottom trawl and may represent a catch made in midwaters as the net was retrieved.