Scopeloberyx opisthopterus (Parr 1933)
- 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
- Stephanoberyciformes
- family
- Melamphaidae
- genus
- Scopeloberyx
- species
- Scopeloberyx opisthopterus
description
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).