Coryphaenoides acrolepis (Bean, 1884)

Coryphaenoides acrolepis (Bean, 1884) View in CoL .

Pacific Grenadier or Roughscale Rattail. To 122 cm ( 48 in) TL (DFO). Sea of Okhotsk and Pacific Ocean off Japan, to southern Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), to near central Baja California mainland ( 28°51’N, 115°46.7’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), and Isla Guadalupe, central Baja California ( Miller and Lea 1972); southwest Atlantic near Falkland Islands ( Laptikhovsky et al. 2013). Benthopelagic and bathypelagic; depth: typically at 600–2,500 m ( 1,968 –8,202 ft) ( Iwamoto and Stein 1974); reported as shallow as 38 m ( 125 ft) (DFO), and as deep as 3,700 m ( 12,136 ft) ( Orlov and Tokranov 2019). The maximum depth may represent fish taken in midwater over deeper bottom, true maximum depth may be around 1,500 m ( 4,920 ft) (Tomio Iwamoto, pers. comm. to M.L.).