Scopelengys tristis Alcock 1890
- 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
- Neoscopelidae
- genus
- Scopelengys
- species
- Scopelengys tristis
description
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).
Name
- Homonyms
- Scopelengys tristis Alcock 1890