Pseudoscopelus scriptus Lutken 1892

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Perciformes; Chiasmodontidae; Pseudoscopelus; Pseudoscopelus scriptus; Yukon; Bering Sea; Gulf of Alaska; Pacific; Milton; Petropavlovsk; Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky; Beaufort Sea; Kamchatka; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5822748; https://zenodo.org/record/5822748

Pseudoscopelus scriptus Lütken, 1892. 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. : Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 192, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 : {"references": ["Okamura, O., Machida, Y., Yamakawa, T., Matsuura, K. & Yatou, T. (Eds.). (1985) Fishes of the Okinawa Trough and the Adjacent waters. Volume 2. The Intensive Research of Unexploited Fishery Resources on Continental Slopes. Japan Fisheries Conservation Association, Tokyo.", "Parin, N. V., Fedorov, V. V., Borodulina, O. D. & Bekker, V. E. (1995) New records of mesopelagic and epipelagic fishes in Pacific waters off the southern Kuril Islands. Journal of Ichthyology, 35, 193 - 204.", "Sheiko, B. A. & Fedorov, V. V. (2000) Chapter 1. Class Cephalaspidomorphi - Lampreys. Class Chondrichthyes - Cartilaginous fishes. Class Holocephali - Chimaeras. Class Osteichthyes - Bony fishes. In: Catalog of Vertebrates of Kamchatka and Adjacent Waters. Kamchatsky Pechatny Dvor, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, pp. 7 - 69 [In Russian.]", "Melo, M. R. S., Walker Jr, H. J. & Klepadlo, C. (2007) Two new species of Pseudoscopelus (Teleostei: Chiasmodontidae), with a new diagnosis for the genus. Zootaxa, 1605, 33 - 46. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1605.1.2", "Prokofiev, A. M. (2009) Pseudoscopelus sagamianus Tanaka 1908 (Chiasmodontidae): designation of the neotype, morphological characteristics of the North Pacific population, and species variation within its whole area. Journal of Ichthyology, 49, 10 - 22. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / s 0032945209010020", "Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & van der Laan, R. (Eds). 2020. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, Reference. Available from: http: // researcharchive. calacademy. org / research / ichthyology / catalog / fishcatmain. asp (accessed 17 April 2021)."]}