Scopeloberyx opisthopterus

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Stephanoberyciformes; Melamphaidae; Scopeloberyx; Scopeloberyx opisthopterus; Beaufort Sea; Alaska; Yukon
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5603788; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FFF0FFD798EAF86CFB4E3160

Scopeloberyx opisthopterus (Parr, 1933). 6.9 cm (2.7 in) SL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Circumglobal (Kotlyar 2005); western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Kotlyar 2005); southern California (32°51’N, 121°14.9’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Peru (Kotlyar 2005). Bathypelagic; depth: at least 180–3,000 m (590–9,840 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California); 0–6,120 m (20,074 ft) based on fish taken by non-closing trawls (Kotlyar 2005). 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 98, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008