Malacocephalus laevis (Lowe, 1843)

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 : 77

Malacocephalus laevis (Lowe, 1843) .

Softhead Grenadier or Velvet Grenadier. To 65.5 cm ( 25.8 in) TL (Tomio Iwamoto, pers. comm. to M.L.). Circumglobal; Point Sur, central California ( Hoff 1999) to Baja California ( Sazonov and Iwamoto 1992); Chile ( Pequeño 1989). Benthopelagic; depth: 50–1,200 m ( 164–3,936 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max. Pakhorukov 2008). Maximum depth perhaps of a specimen taken in midwaters over deeper waters (Tomio Iwamoto, pers. comm. to M.L.).