Scopelengys tristis Alcock 1890

Scopelengys tristis Alcock, 1890. Blackchin or Pacific Blackchin. To 20 cm (7.9 in) SL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002) and Russian north-western Pacific Oce...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 2021
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Myctophiformes
Neoscopelidae
Scopelengys
Scopelengys tristis
Yukon
Bering Sea
Gulf of Alaska
Pacific
Alcock
Milton
Scripps
Beaufort Sea
Russian North
Alaska
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/5822086
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5822086
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Summary:Scopelengys tristis Alcock, 1890. Blackchin or Pacific Blackchin. To 20 cm (7.9 in) SL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002) and Russian north-western Pacific Ocean (Orlov and Tokranov 2019); southern Bering Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) and Gulf of Alaska (59°07’N, 146°55’W) (Stevenson et al. 2009) to northern Chile (30°S) (Kong and Meléndez 1991). Depth: minimum 400 m (1,312 ft) (Robertson et al. 2017); adults tend to occur deeper than 1,000 m (3,280 ft) (Nafpaktitis 1977) to 3,350 m (10,990 ft) or more, and juveniles (less than 10 cm) at 500–800 m (1,640 –2,625 ft) (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). 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 65, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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