Sternoptyx pseudobscura Baird, 1971

Fermon, Yves, Bailly, Nicolas, Cardiec, Floriane, Causse, Romain, Chartrain, Emmanuel, Chirio, Laurent, Bruyne, Godefroy De, Deynat, Pascal, Hopkins, Carl D., Lamboj, Anton, Mennesson, Marion I., Beh, Jean-Hervé Mve, Paugy, Didier, Sidlauskas, Brian, Sullivan, John P., Weghe, Jean-Pierre Van De, Vigliotta, Thomas R. & Zee, Jouke Van Der, 2022, An annotated checklist of the fishes of Gabon, Cybium 46 (2), pp. 2-3 : 170

Sternoptyx pseudobscura Baird, 1971

Occurrence: native

Maximum length: 6 cm SL

Water type: marine

Environment: bathypelagic

Depth range: 500-2000 m

Migration: oceanodromous

IUCN status: LC – Least concern (2015)

Source: bibliography

Distribution and remarks: widely distributed in the three major oceans, circumglobal tropical to temperate waters. Eastern Atlantic: known from Portugal south to South Africa, in the Gulf of Guinea, along the north-western coast of Africa, near the Azores and scattered in tropical regions.