Lepidopus fitchi Rosenblatt & Wilson, 1987 .

Black Scabbardfish or Pacific Scabbardfish. To 210 cm (82.7 in) SL (Nakamura in Fischer et al. 1995). Off Newport, Oregon (Jonathan Cusick, pers. comm. to M.L.) to southern Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Nakamura in Fischer et al. 1995). No collections appear to have been made between 20°N and 5° N and Rosenblatt and Wilson (1987) speculate that this is an example of antitropical distribution. Benthopelagic; depth: adults 150–500 m (492–1,640 ft) (min.: Rosenblatt and Wilson 1987; max.: Fitch and Lavenberg 1968), and perhaps to 1,080 m (3,542 ft) (Bradburn et al. 2011). The latter record is from a capture made by a bottom trawl and may represent a catch made in midwaters as the net was retrieved.