Neoscopelus macrolepidotus Johnson 1863
- 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
- Neoscopelus
- species
- Neoscopelus macrolepidotus
description
Glowingfish or Largescale Blackchin Glowingfish. To 27.3 cm (10.7 in) SL (Roberts et al. 2015). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Savinykh and Balanov 1999); British Columbia, probably off Haida Gwaii (Peden and Hughes 1986) to northern California (41 ° 54 ’ N, 124 ° 36 ’ W) (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington). Depth: 249 – 1,180 m (817 – 3,870 ft) (min.: Mejía-Mercado et al. 2019; max. Kamikawa 2017).