Biology:Gymnoscopelus
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Short description: Genus of fishes
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| Gymnoscopelus piabilis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Myctophiformes |
| Family: | Myctophidae |
| Genus: | Gymnoscopelus Günther, 1873 |
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Gymnoscopelus is a genus of lanternfishes. The name is from the Greek gymnos, "naked" and skopelos, "lanternfish."[2]
They can live in extremely cold water; two species, Gymnoscopelus nicholsi and Gymnoscopelus braueri, have been recorded at up to 75°S in the Ross Sea.[3]
Species
There are currently eight recognized species in this genus:[4]
- Gymnoscopelus bolini Andriashev, 1962
- Gymnoscopelus braueri (Lönnberg, 1905)
- Gymnoscopelus fraseri (Fraser-Brunner, 1931)
- Gymnoscopelus hintonoides Hulley, 1981 (False-midas lanternfish)
- Gymnoscopelus microlampas Hulley, 1981 (Minispotted lanternfish)
- Gymnoscopelus nicholsi (C. H. Gilbert, 1911) (Nichol's lanternfish)
- Gymnoscopelus opisthopterus Fraser-Brunner, 1949
- Gymnoscopelus piabilis (Whitley, 1931) (Southern blacktip lanternfish)
References
- ↑ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: 560. http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class. Retrieved 2007-12-25.
- ↑ "Gymnoscopelus nicholsi, Nichol's lanternfish : Fisheries". https://www.fishbase.se/summary/Gymnoscopelus-nicholsi.
- ↑ "Archived copy". http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/508228/1/Atlas_Chap.7-Duhamel_et_al_2014-F.pdf.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Gymnoscopelus in FishBase. April 2012 version.
Wikidata ☰ Q2422801 entry
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