Fierce Pike Smelt
Sudis atrox Rofen, 1963
Also calledMunabirehadakaeso (jpn) · barakudina děsná (ces) · barracudilla horrible (spa) · Малопозвонковый судис (rus) · ムナビレハダカエソ (jpn)
First described in: Rofen, R. R. (1963). Diagnoses of new genera and species of alepisauroid fishes of the family Paralepididae. <em>Aquatica.</em> No. 2:1-7.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
description
To more than 9 cm (3.5 in) SL (Russell in Carpenter and De Angelis 2016). Probably circumglobal (Fricke et al. 2020); western Pacific Ocean north to Ryukyu Islands (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002); at least southern California (32 ° N) to Chile (Ambrose in Moser 1996). Primarily mesopelagic to bathypelagic; depth: 30 – 2,250 m (98 – 7,382 ft) (Moore et al. 2003).
Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
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There are records of this species in the south of the Azores, in the PECS area (80 NM west of the Hyères Seamount), MCZ, No. 67382, 30.6166 º W, 31.8333 º N, 5 Sep. 1973; MCZ, No. 67361, 30.6833 º W, 31.7333 º N, 6 Sep. 1973.
Updated checklist of marine fishes (Chordata: Craniata) from Portugal and the proposed extension of the Portuguese continental shelf
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5212765.