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Notoscopelus resplendens (Richardson, 1845) 
AphiaID: 158916

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Myctophiformes (Order) > Myctophidae (Family) > Notoscopelus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Notoscopelus Günther, 1864
Synonymised
taxa
  Lampanyctus resplendens Richardson, 1845
Notoscopelus (Notoscopelus) resplendens (Richardson, 1845)
Notoscopelus brachychier Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1889
Notoscopelus ejectus Waite, 1904
Scopelus resplendens (Richardson, 1845)
Serpa hoffmanni Fowler, 1934
Sources  basis of record: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

basis of record: Scott, W.B. and M.G. Scott. 1988. Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No. 219. 731 p. [details]

additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: Roberts, C.; Stewart, A.; Francis, M. (2009). Marine fishes (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

additional source: McEachran, J. D. 2009. Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

from synonym: van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Anon. (2000). FishBase 2000 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. 4 cd-roms pp. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English patchwork lampfish  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
FAO fishing area 67 [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North East Pacific [details]
North Pacific [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
South Africa (country) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Host of  Sarcotretes scopeli Jungersen, 1911 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (18 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 7 proteins)
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Atlantic Ocean: about 35°N (east of 40°W) and 47°N (west of 40°W) to the southern subtropical convergence at 40°S, but with discontinuity in the region of the cyclonic gyre 2°S - 11°S, in the eastern Atlantic and in the minimum region off Brazil (5°-9°S to 21°S)  [details]

Habitat: high-oceanic, epipelagic to mesopelagic; nyctoepipelagic at the surface and down to 300 m and found between 651-2,000 m during the day  [details]

Habitat: nektonic [details]

Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]

Habitat: Mesopelagic [details]

Habitat: Bathypelagic [details]

Reproduction: Spawns off Bermuda in late autumn to winter [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158916
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-27 07:39:43Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2006-03-05 14:32:02Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Notoscopelus resplendens (Richardson, 1845). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158916 on 2013-05-21
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