Erilepis zonifer (Lockington, 1880)

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 114

Erilepis zonifer (Lockington, 1880) .

Priestfish or Skilfish. To 188 cm (74 in) TL ( Zolotov et al. 2014). Sagami Bay, Pacific coast of central Honshu, Japan ( Mecklenburg 2003), to south of Commander–Aleutian chain, and southern Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), to Monterey Bay, central California ( Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Depth: juveniles and young adults to about 110 cm (43 in) TL collected near surface, sometimes close to shore (Mecklenburg et al. 2002); adults close to bottom; depth: 200–1,047 m (656–3,438 ft), usually far from shore (min.: Mecklenburg et al. 2002; max.: Zolotov et al. 2014).