Benthodesmus pacificus Parin & Becker, 1970

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Benthodesmus pacificus Parin & Becker, 1970 .

North Pacific Frostfish. To 112 cm (44.1 in) SL. Kyushu-Palau Ridge and Ryukyu Islands, Japan ( Nakamura and Parin 1993); British Columbia and Puget Sound, Washington ( Peden and Hughes 1986) to Monterey Bay, central California ( Anderson and Cailliet 1975). Benthopelagic; depth: to 380 m (1,246 ft) and deeper, sometimes migrating to surface; juveniles mesopelagic ( Nakamura and Parin 1993). Originally described as a subspecies of Benthodesmus elongatus (Clarke, 1879) , this form was treated as a full species by Nakamura and Parin (1993) and recognized as such by Nelson et al. (2004); B. pacificus occurs in the North Pacific, whereas B. elongatus occurs in the Southern Hemisphere in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans. Records from British Columbia and Washington ( Peden and Hughes 1986) were reported as Benthodesmus tenuis (Günther, 1877) .