Scopelengys tristis Alcock 1890

• 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; Myctophiformes; Neoscopelidae; Scopelengys; Scopelengys tristis; Beaufort Sea; Bering Sea; Russian North; Alaska; Yukon
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5822086; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FFD1FFF498EAF8C0FEF530D0

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