Species: Lampris megalopsis, Bigeye Opah

Lampris megalopsis Unterkoffler, Luers, Hyde & Craig, 2018

Bigeye Opah

Body a deep, compressed oval; mouth small and without teeth; horizontal eye diameter >30% head length & >5% fork length; dorsal and anal fins long-based, both retractable into a deep groove; dorsal fin I, 50, with high front lobe, height of that lobe ~26.3% of fork length; anal fin 38; pectoral fin 23, high on sides, with horizontal base, long, narrow and curved; pelvics 14-15, large, on lower rim of body, under rear of pectoral base, length ~33.6% of fork length; body covered with small, smooth scales; lateral line high on side, with a strong arch over pectoral.

Back blue green, sides greenish with bronze, lower body rose red; entire body reddish in death & covered with small round silvery spots, that are < pupil size and densely concentrated; jaws and fins scarlet.

Reaches 185 cm and 89 kg.

Oceanic pelagic.

Depth range: 0-500 m.

Worldwide in tropical and temperate waters; Nova Scotia to Argentina.

Note: There are four other spotted species in the genus, the more restricted ranges that partly overlap the cosmopolitan range of L. megalopsis.