Notoscopelus japonicus (Tanaka 1908)
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Myctophiformes
- family
- Myctophidae
- genus
- Notoscopelus
- species
- Notoscopelus japonicus
description
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).
Name
- Homonyms
- Notoscopelus japonicus (Tanaka 1908)