Alepocephalus tenebrosus Gilbert, 1892

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 : 48

Alepocephalus tenebrosus Gilbert, 1892 .

California Slickhead. To 61 cm (24 in) TL ( Fitch and Lavenberg 1968). Eastern Gulf of Alaska (59°33’N, 144°15’W) ( Maslenikov et al. 2013) to southern Baja California (23°12.6’N) ( Cruz-Acevedo et al. 2018); central America ( Robertson et al. 2017); Chile (Ambrose in Moser 1996). Reports from eastern Bering Sea not verifiable (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Benthopelagic; depth: 115–2,287 m (377– 7,501 ft) (min.: Morera et al. 20019; max.: Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California). Mecklenburg et al. (2002) note that the depth range of 46– 5,486 m (150–18,000 ft) given by Fitch and Lavenberg (1968) may apply to the family as a whole and not necessarily to A. tenebrosus .