Borophryne apogon Regan 1925
- 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
- Lophiiformes
- family
- Linophrynidae
- genus
- Borophryne
- species
- Borophryne apogon
description
Netdevil Anglerfish. To 10.1 cm (4 in) SL (Pietsch 2009). Southern Baja California (26 ° 31 ’ N, 114 ° 34 ’ W) (De La Cruz-Agüero and Galván-Magaña 1992) to south of equator (4 ° 25 ’ S, 81 ° 51 ’ W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Primarily mesopelagic; depth: As shallow as 54 m (177 ft) (Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2006 a) and deep tows include 1,900 m (6,233 ft) (De La Cruz-Agüero 1998) and 2,086 m (6,842 ft) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California).
Name
- Homonyms
- Borophryne apogon Regan 1925