Eustomias achirus Parin

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 : 175

Eustomias achirus Parin & Pokhil’skaya, 1974

Occurrence: native

Maximum length: 16.7 cm SL

Water type: marine

Environment: epi- to abyssopelagic

Depth range: 0-900 m

Migration: unknown

IUCN status: LC – Least concern (2019)

Source: bibliography

Distribution and remarks: East Atlantic: known from Western Sahara south to Angola. There is some uncertainty regarding the identification of specimens from the Atlantic in part based on the wide geographic separation from the type locality in the South Pacific.