Protomyctophum thompsoni (Chapman, 1944)

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 : 72

Protomyctophum thompsoni (Chapman, 1944) .

Bigeye Lanternfish, Northern Flashlightfish, or Northern Lanternfish. To 11.2 cm (4.4 in) TL (DFO). Northern Japan (Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984), to southern Bering Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), to central California (34°29’N, 122°28’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Depth: surface to 1,370 m (4,495 ft) (min.: Wisner 1976; max.: Sheiko and Fedorov 2000).