Pseudoscopelus scriptus Lutken 1892
Description
Pseudoscopelus scriptus Lütken, 1892.
Luminous Swallower. To 17.2 cm (7.5 in) SL (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Okamura in Okamura et al. 1985) and southern Kuril Islands (Parin et al. 1995); western Bering Sea off northeastern Kamchatka and vicinity of Commander Islands (Sheiko and Fedorov 2000); one specimen taken in “NMFS Area 670, 47°30’N to 50°30’N ” (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington, UW 153507); probably inhabits deep waters north and south of the Aleutian Islands and in the Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Mesopelagic and bathypelagic; depth: 200–2,100 m (656–6,890 ft) (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). A taxon with confused taxonomy. The western Pacific form Pseudoscopelus scriptus sagamianus Tanaka, 1908, has been treated as a separate species, P. sagamianus (Melo et al. 2007, Prokofiev 2009). Fricke et al. (2020) do not recognize the genus Pseudoscopelus from within our range.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Chiasmodontidae
- Genus
- Pseudoscopelus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Lutken
- Species
- scriptus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pseudoscopelus scriptus Lutken, 1892 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Okamura, O., Machida, Y., Yamakawa, T., Matsuura, K. & Yatou, T. (Eds.). (1985) Fishes of the Okinawa Trough and the Adjacent waters. Volume 2. The Intensive Research of Unexploited Fishery Resources on Continental Slopes. Japan Fisheries Conservation Association, Tokyo.
- Parin, N. V., Fedorov, V. V., Borodulina, O. D. & Bekker, V. E. (1995) New records of mesopelagic and epipelagic fishes in Pacific waters off the southern Kuril Islands. Journal of Ichthyology, 35, 193 - 204.
- Sheiko, B. A. & Fedorov, V. V. (2000) Chapter 1. Class Cephalaspidomorphi - Lampreys. Class Chondrichthyes - Cartilaginous fishes. Class Holocephali - Chimaeras. Class Osteichthyes - Bony fishes. In: Catalog of Vertebrates of Kamchatka and Adjacent Waters. Kamchatsky Pechatny Dvor, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, pp. 7 - 69 [In Russian.]
- Melo, M. R. S., Walker Jr, H. J. & Klepadlo, C. (2007) Two new species of Pseudoscopelus (Teleostei: Chiasmodontidae), with a new diagnosis for the genus. Zootaxa, 1605, 33 - 46. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1605.1.2
- Prokofiev, A. M. (2009) Pseudoscopelus sagamianus Tanaka 1908 (Chiasmodontidae): designation of the neotype, morphological characteristics of the North Pacific population, and species variation within its whole area. Journal of Ichthyology, 49, 10 - 22. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / s 0032945209010020
- Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & van der Laan, R. (Eds). 2020. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, Reference. Available from: http: // researcharchive. calacademy. org / research / ichthyology / catalog / fishcatmain. asp (accessed 17 April 2021).