Neoscopelidae

Bañon, Rafael, Arronte, Juan Carlos, Rodriguez-Cabello, Cristina, Piñeiro, Carmen-Gloria, Punzon, Antonio & Serrano, Alberto, 2016, Commented checklist of marine fishes from the Galicia Bank seamount (NW Spain), Zootaxa 4067 (3), pp. 293-333 : 311

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.3.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:50B7E074-F212-4193-BFB9-84A1D0A0E03C

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5618901

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AC642D14-3A5B-FFD9-34F2-FA67D81E2CD7

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Plazi

scientific name

Neoscopelidae
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Family Neoscopelidae View in CoL View at ENA

Neoscopelus macrolepidotus Johnson, 1863 —Large-scaled lanternfish

2 specimens of 20 and 21 cm TL were caught at depths of 757 and 780 m respectively. Biometry and meristic: 219 mm TL, 178 mm SL; HL: 28.7; PO: 7.9; POL: 16.3; ED: 4.5; IOW: 6.7; PD: 42.7; LD: 12.9; PA: 74.2; LA: 11.8; LP: 27.0; LV: 15.2; H: 22.5; D: 13; A: 12; P: 19; V: 8; Gr: 3+8. Habitat and Distribution: bathypelagic, nonmigratory, over continental and island slopes at depth range 300–1,180 m. Circumglobal in tropical through subtropical seas, but not in most parts of the Indian Ocean. In the eastern Atlantic, from the Bay of Biscay to western Sahara and also in Namibia. Vulnerability: DD (IUCN), MV (FishBase).

Neoscopelus microchir Matsubara, 1943 —Shortfin neoscopelid ( Fig. 14 View FIGURE 14 )

287 specimens were caught at depths between 729 and 896 m. Length data were available for 176 specimens ranging from 18 to 37 cm TL (27.4±3.9). The main biometric and meristic data for this species and area were previously reported by Bañón et al. (2002). Habitat and Distribution: Atlantic and Indo-West Pacific oceans. In the eastern Atlantic Ocean, from the Galicia Bank to Morocco and South Africa: DD (IUCN), MV (FishBase).

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