Smith's Waryfish, Scopelosaurus smithii Bean 1925
Scopelosaurus smithi. Source: Jeff Dubosc / www.allfishes.net. License: All rights reserved
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Bray, D.J. 2018, Scopelosaurus smithii in Fishes of Australia, accessed 17 Sep 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). |
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Species Citation |
Scopelosaurus smithii Bean 1925, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 38: 13. Type locality: off the coast of Brazil. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2018 |
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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
