Shortfin Neoscopelid, Neoscopelus microchir Matsubara 1943
Shortfin Neoscopelid,Neoscopelus microchir. Source: Ken J. Graham / NSW Fisheries. License: All rights reserved
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Bray, D.J. 2025, Neoscopelus microchir in Fishes of Australia, accessed 08 Jun 2026, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/4024
Shortfin Neoscopelid, Neoscopelus microchir Matsubara 1943
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Distribution |
Off the Northwest Shelf, Western Australia, and off Newcastle to off Kiama, New South Wales. Elsewhere the species is circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, except absent from the eastern Pacific. The species is benthopelagic on the continental slope, including on seamounts ridges and rises, typically between 250-700 metres depth. |
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Etymology |
The specific name is from the Greek mikrós (= small) and cheir (= hand), in reference to the smaller pectoral fin of this species when compared with that of Neoscopelus macrolepidotus. |
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Species Citation |
Neoscopelus microchir Matsubara 1943, Journal of Sigenkagaku Kenkyusyo 1(1): 59, fig. 13. Type locality: off Heta, Suruga, Japan. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2025 |
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Shortfin Neoscopelid, Neoscopelus microchir Matsubara 1943
References
Matsubara, K. 1943. Ichthyological annotations from the depth of the Sea of Japan. III. A review of the scopelid fish, referable to the genus Neoscopelus. Journal of Sigenkagaku Kenkyusyo 1(1): 55-63
Roberts, C.D. 2015. 88 Family Neoscopelidae, pp. 610-612 in Roberts, C.D., Stewart, A.L. & Struthers, C.D. (eds). The Fishes of New Zealand. Wellington : Te Papa Press Vol. 3 pp. 577-1152.
Williams, A. 2019. Neoscopelus microchir. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T18129312A128526472. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T18129312A128526472.en. Accessed on 03 September 2025.
