WoRMS taxon details
original description
(of Scopelus affinis Lütken, 1892) Lütken, C. F. (1892). Spolia Atlantica. Scopelini Musei zoologici Universitatis Hauniensis. Bidrag til Kundskab om det aabne Havs Laxesild eller Scopeliner. Med et tillaeg om en anden pelagisk fiskeslaegt. <em>Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et des Lettres de Danemark, Copenhague (Sér. 6).</em> v. 7 (no. 6): 221-297, Pls. 1-3. [details]
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
context source (Bermuda)
Beebe, W. (1933). Preliminary account of deep sea dives in the bathysphere with especial reference to one of 2200 feet. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A., 19(1): 178-188 [details] Available for editors [request]
context source (PeRMS)
Chirichigno, N.; Cornejo, M. (2001). Catálogo comentado de los peces marinos del Perú. <em>2ª ed. Instituto del Mar de Perú. Publicación Especial. Callao.</em> 314 p. [details]
basis of record
Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. <em>Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> No. 219. 731 pp. [details]
additional source
McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
additional source
Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2024). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]
Unreviewed
Diet Feeds on plankton [details]
Distribution Western Atlantic: Bermuda, southern Canada to Florida (USA), Gulf of Mexico and southern Caribbean [details]
Habitat nektonic [details]
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
Habitat High-oceanic, nyctoepipelagic at the surface and down to 275 m and found between 300-600 m during the day. [details]
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English |
metallic lanternfish |
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To Barcode of Life (25 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications) (from synonym Myctophum opalinum Goode & Bean, 1896)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) (from synonym Scopelus affinis Lütken, 1892)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (39 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Rhinoscopelus oceanicus Jordan & Evermann, 1903)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Myctophum affine)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Myctophum opalinum Goode & Bean, 1896)
To FishBase (from synonym Rhinoscopelus oceanicus Jordan & Evermann, 1903)
To FishBase (from synonym Scopelus affinis Lütken, 1892)
To FishBase images (Myctophum affine, by Dolgov, A.)
To GenBank (27 nucleotides; 49 proteins)
To GenBank (27 nucleotides; 49 proteins) (from synonym Scopelus affinis Lütken, 1892)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Myctophum affine RAD104959-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Myctophum affine RAD104960-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Myctophum opalinum P09739 illustration) (from synonym Myctophum opalinum Goode & Bean, 1896)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Rhinoscopelus oceanicus P06427 illustration) (from synonym Rhinoscopelus oceanicus Jordan & Evermann, 1903)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Unreviewed
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