Alepisaurus ferox Lowe, 1833

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 : 63

Alepisaurus ferox Lowe, 1833 .

Longnose Lancetfish. To about 231 cm (90.9 in) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984), and Sea of Okhotsk, to Bering Sea as far northward as 58°21’N, 175°19’W ( Maslenikov et al. 2013), and Aleutian Islands (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Chile ( Pequeño 1989). Epipelagic to bathypelagic; depth: near surface to 1,830 m (6,004 ft); primarily oceanic but often found close to shore (Mecklenburg et al. 2002).