Macroparalepis affinis Ege, 1933

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 : 184

Macroparalepis affinis Ege, 1933

Occurrence: native

Maximum length: 55 cm TL

Water type: marine

Environment: bathypelagic

Depth range: 50-2000 m

Migration: unknown

IUCN status: LC – Least concern (2015)

Source: bibliography

Distribution and remarks: Atlantic Ocean: antitropical in distribution. Eastern Atlantic: known from Morocco south to Angola and the Cape Verde Islands, although the North and South subpopulations are disjunct. Collected by the Nansen campaign of 2014 ( Michalsen et al., 2015) (De Bruyne, pers. com.).