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Bathophilus brevis Regan & Trewavas, 1930. Deepbody Dragonfish. To 5.5 cm (2.1 in) SL (Gibbs and
Barnett in Quéro et al. 1990). Atlantic and Pacific; southern California (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002) to
Chile (Pequeño 1989). At depths of 75–1,650 m (246–5,412 ft; Morrow and Gibbs 1964).
Bathophilus filifer (Garman, 1899). To 10.1 cm (4.0 in) SL (SIO 92-34). Eastern and central tropical Pacific;
southern Baja California (24°35'N, 113°23'W; SIO 64-15) to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Mesopelagic (Moser
in Moser 1996).
Bathophilus flemingi Aron & McCrery, 1958. Highfin Dragonfish. To 16.5 cm (6.5 in) TL (Hart 1973).
Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to central Baja California (Moser in Moser 1996). Primarily
mesopelagic and bathypelagic, recorded from depths of less than 60 m to 1,372 m (197–4,501 ft) (min.:
Peden et al. 1985; max.: Grinols 1965).
Borostomias panamensis Regan & Trewavas, 1929. Panama Snaggletooth. To just over 30 cm (12 in) TL
(Fitch and Lavenberg 1968). Eastern Pacific; Point Conception, California (Fitch and Lavenberg 1968)
to Chile (Pequeño 1989). At depths of 455–1,139 m (1,500–3,736 ft) (min.: Fitch and Lavenberg 1968;
max.: Lauth 2001).
Chauliodus macouni Bean, 1890. Pacific Viperfish. To 28 cm (11.0 in) SL (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002). North
Pacific from southern Japan (Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984) to Bering Sea (Parin and Novikova 1974), to
central Baja California (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) and Gulf of California (Allen and Smith 1988).
Larvae have been taken as far south as Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California (Moser et al. 1993).
Primarily mesopelagic and bathypelagic (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), recorded from depths of 25–4,390 m
(82–14,403 ft) (min.: Allen and Smith 1988; max.: Sheiko and Fedorov 2000).
*Eustomias perplexus Gibbs, Clarke, & Gomon, 1983. To 14.7 cm (5.8 in) SL. Pacific and eastern Indian
oceans; perhaps one specimen captured well off southern Baja California (23°05'N, 119°08'W). Depth
range poorly understood; a mesopelagic species with thus far a maximum known depth of about 300 m
(984 ft). All in Gibbs et al. (1983).
Flagellostomias boureei (Zugmayer, 1913). Threadbeard Dragonfish. To 32.2 cm (12.7 in) SL (Gibbs
and Barnett in Quéro et al. 1990). Circumglobal; Japan (Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984); well off Point
Conception (Berry and Perkins 1966) and southern California (32°18'N, 121°44'W; SIO 63-379) to
southern Baja California (25°30'N, 116°W; Parin and Scherbachev 1998). At depths of 75–1,825 m
(246–5,986 ft; Morrow and Gibbs 1964).
Idiacanthus antrostomus Gilbert, 1890. Pacific Blackdragon. Males to 7.6 cm (3 in) TL (Fitch and Lavenberg
1968), females to 40 cm (16 in) SL (Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984). Japan (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983)
and central Oregon (45°52'N; Lauth 2001) to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Near surface (Fitch and Lavenberg
1968) to at least 700 m (2,296 ft; Lavenberg and Ebeling 1967).
Idiacanthus fasciola Peters, 1877. To 35.3 cm (13.9 in) SL (Krueger in Quéro et al. 1990). Circumglobal;
Oregon (Matarese et al. 1989) to off Ecuador (4°13'S, 85°01'W; SIO 96-121). At surface to 2,000 m
(6,560 ft; Morrow and Gibbs 1964).
Malacosteus niger Ayres, 1848. Shortnose Loosejaw. To 24 cm (9.4 in) SL (Mecklenburg et al. 2002).
Circumglobal; Japan (Fujii in Masuda et al. 1984); western Bering Sea northeast of Commander Islands
(Balanov and Fedorov 1996); British Columbia (Gillespie 1993) to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Mesopelagic
and bathypelagic at depths of 200–3,886 m (660–12,824 ft) (min.: Balanov and Fedorov 1996; max.:
Machida in Okamura and Kitajima 1984). Malacosteus danae Regan & Trewavas, 1930, is a junior
synonym.
Melanostomias biseriatus Regan & Trewavas, 1930. To 25 cm (9.8 in) SL (McEachran and Fechhelm 1998).
Atlantic and North Pacific. At depths of 40–1,800 m (131–5,904 ft; Morrow and Gibbs 1964).