Scopelengys tristis Alcock 1890
Description
Scopelengys tristis Alcock, 1890.
Blackchin or Pacific Blackchin. To 20 cm (7.9 in) SL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002) and Russian north-western Pacific Ocean (Orlov and Tokranov 2019); southern Bering Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) and Gulf of Alaska (59°07’N, 146°55’W) (Stevenson et al. 2009) to northern Chile (30°S) (Kong and Meléndez 1991). Depth: minimum 400 m (1,312 ft) (Robertson et al. 2017); adults tend to occur deeper than 1,000 m (3,280 ft) (Nafpaktitis 1977) to 3,350 m (10,990 ft) or more, and juveniles (less than 10 cm) at 500–800 m (1,640 –2,625 ft) (Mecklenburg et al. 2002).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Neoscopelidae
- Genus
- Scopelengys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Myctophiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Alcock
- Species
- tristis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Scopelengys tristis Alcock, 1890 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Orlov, A. M. & Tokranov, A. M. (2019) Checklist of deep-sea fishes of the Russian northwestern Pacific Ocean found at depths below 1000 m. Progress in Oceanography, 176, https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. pocean. 2019.102143
- Stevenson, D. E. & Sheiko, B. A. (2009) Clarification of the Lycodes diapterus species complex (Perciformes: oarcidae), with comments on the subgenus Furcimanus. Copeia, 2009, 125 - 137. https: // doi. org / 10.1643 / ci- 08 - 069
- Kong, I. & Melendez, C. R. (1991) Estudio taxonomico y sistematico de la ictiofauna de aguas profundas capturada entie Arica e Isla Mocha (18 ° 30 ' - 38 ° 30 ' Lat. S). Estudios Oceanograficos, 10, 1 - 81.
- Robertson, D. R., Angulo, A., Baldwin, C. C., Pitassy, D., Driskell, A., Weigt, L. & Navarro, I. J. F. (2017) Deep-water bony fishes collected by the B / O Miguel Oliver on the shelf edge of Pacific Central America: an annotated, illustrated and DNAbarcoded checklist. Zootaxa, 4348, 1 - 125. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4348.1.1
- Nafpaktitis, B. (1977) Family Neoscopelidae. In: Fishes of the Western North Atlantic. Memoirs of the Sears Foundation for Marine Research, 7 (1), pp. 1 - 12.