Pseudoscopelus scriptus Lutken 1892

• 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; Perciformes; Chiasmodontidae; Pseudoscopelus; Pseudoscopelus scriptus; Yukon; Bering Sea; Gulf of Alaska; Pacific; Milton; Beaufort Sea; Kamchatka; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5822748; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.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