Scopeloberyx opisthopterus
Description
Scopeloberyx opisthopterus (Parr, 1933).
6.9 cm (2.7 in) SL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Circumglobal (Kotlyar 2005); western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Kotlyar 2005); southern California (32°51’N, 121°14.9’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Peru (Kotlyar 2005). Bathypelagic; depth: at least 180–3,000 m (590–9,840 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California); 0–6,120 m (20,074 ft) based on fish taken by non-closing trawls (Kotlyar 2005).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Melamphaidae
- Genus
- Scopeloberyx
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Stephanoberyciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Parr
- Species
- opisthopterus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Scopeloberyx opisthopterus (Parr, 1933) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Kotlyar, A. N. (2005) Revision of the genus Scopeloberyx (Melamphaidae). Part 3: species of the group S. opisthopterus. Journal of Ichthyology, 45, 16 - 27.