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Notoscopelus japonicus
Description
* Notoscopelus japonicus (Tanaka, 1908).
Fluorescent Lampfish or Spiny Lanternfish. To 14.8 cm (5.8 in) SL (Watanabe et al. 1999). Western Pacific Ocean north to Hokkado, Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002); probable but not confirmed in eastern Pacific at latitudes west of southern British Columbia and California (Peden and Hughes 1986 (table 1: “probable”) (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Depth: 60–657 m (197–2,155 ft) (min.: Watanabe et al. 1999; max.: Balanov et al. 2009).
Notes
Published as part of 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, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 71, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Myctophidae
- Genus
- Notoscopelus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Myctophiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Tanaka
- Species
- japonicus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Notoscopelus japonicus (Tanaka, 1908) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Watanabe, H., Moku, M., Kawaguchi, K., Ishimaru, K. & Ohno, A. (1999) Diel vertical migration of myctophid fishes (Family Myctophidae) in the transitional waters of the western North Pacific. Fisheries Oceanography, 8, 115 - 127. https: // doi. org / 10.1046 / j. 1365 - 2419.1999.00103. x
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Peden, A. E. & Hughes, G. W. (1986) First records, confirmatory records, and range extensions of marine fishes off Canada's west coast. Canadian Field-Naturalist, 100, 1 - 9.
- Balanov, A. A., Moku, M., Kawaguchi, K. & Shinohara, G. (2009) Fishes collected by commercial size midwater trawls from the Pacific coast off northern Japan. In: Fujita, T. (Ed.), Deepsea Fauna and Pollutants of Pacific Coast of Northern Japan. National Museum of Nature and Science Monograph No. 39, pp. 655 - 681.