Notoscopelus japonicus

• 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; Myctophidae; Notoscopelus; Notoscopelus japonicus; Yukon; Pacific; Milton; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5822185; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5822185

* Notoscopelus japonicus (Tanaka, 1908). Fluorescent Lampfish or Spiny Lanternfish. To 14.8 cm (5.8 in) SL (Watanabe et al. 1999). Western Pacific Ocean north to Hokkado, Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002); probable but not confirmed in eastern Pacific at latitudes west of southern British Columbia and California (Peden and Hughes 1986 (table 1: “probable”) (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Depth: 60–657 m (197–2,155 ft) (min.: Watanabe et al. 1999; max.: Balanov et al. 2009). 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 71, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008