Bathylagoides nigrigenys (Parr 1931)

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 : 46

Bathylagoides nigrigenys (Parr 1931) .

To 10.5 cm (4.1 in) SL ( Kobyliansky 1985). Equatorial and tropical waters of Indo-Pacific ( Kobyliansky 1985); southern California (32°45’N, 118°54’W) (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California) to Chile ( Pequeño 1989), including Gulf of California. Depth: surface (night light, Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 91 to perhaps 1,095 m (300–3,593 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Adults usually at depths of 200–300 m ( Kobyliansky 1985).