Smith's Waryfish, Scopelosaurus smithii Bean 1925


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Bray, D.J. 2018, Scopelosaurus smithii in Fishes of Australia, accessed 25 Apr 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/5240

Smith's Waryfish, Scopelosaurus smithii Bean 1925

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Distribution

Off the Exmouth Plateau, Western Australia, off the Queensland Plateau, Coral Sea, Queensland, and off southern Tasmania. Elsewhere the species is circumglobal in the Southern Hemisphere (except for Eastern Pacific).

Species Citation

Scopelosaurus smithii Bean 1925, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 38: 13. Type locality: off the coast of Brazil.

Author

Bray, D.J. 2018

Resources

Australian Faunal Directory

Smith's Waryfish, Scopelosaurus smithii Bean 1925

References


Bean, B.A.1925. Description of a new species of luminous lizard fish, Scopelosaurus smithii, from off the coast of Brazil. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 38: 13-14. See ref at BHL

Bertelsen, E., Krefft, G. & Marshall, N.B. 1976. The fishes of the family Notosudidae. Dana Report No. 86: 1-114, Pl. 1.

Last, P.R., Pogonoski, J.J., Gledhill, D.C. White, W.T. & Walker, C.J. 2014. The deepwater demersal ichthyofauna of the western Coral Sea. Zootaxa 3887 (2): 191–224

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CAAB Code:37125008

Habitat:Mesopelagic

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