Bajacalifornia megalops (Lutken 1898)
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Osmeriformes
- family
- Alepocephalidae
- genus
- Bajacalifornia
- species
- Bajacalifornia megalops
description
Bigeye Smooth-head. About 40 cm (15.7 in) (Roberts et al. 2015). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to northern Japan (B. erimoensis, Nakabo in Nakabo 2002); southeastern Bering Sea (54 ° 08 ’ N, 167 ° 51 ’ W); also three records from U. S. West Coast, off Washington (47 ° 52 ’ N, 125 ° 52 ’ W), Oregon (45 ° 47 ’ N, 124 ° 46.8 ’ W) (Maslenikov et al. 2013), and southern California (33 ° 23.4 ’ N, 119 ° 58.2 ’ W), southern California (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington; as Bajacalifornia erimoensis). Depth: 150 – 3,200 m (492 – 10,496 ft) (Kamikawa 2017). Bajacalifornia erimoensis Amaoka & Abe, 1977 is a junior synonym.