Pseudoscopelus scriptus Lutken 1892
- 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
- Perciformes
- family
- Chiasmodontidae
- genus
- Pseudoscopelus
- species
- Pseudoscopelus scriptus
description
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.
Name
- Homonyms
- Pseudoscopelus scriptus Lutken 1892