Spangleside Neoscopelid, Neoscopelus porosus Arai 1969
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Bray, D.J. 2025, Neoscopelus porosus in Fishes of Australia, accessed 08 Jun 2026, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/4025
Spangleside Neoscopelid, Neoscopelus porosus Arai 1969
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Distribution |
W of Barrow Island to W of The Kimberley, Western Australia. Elsewhere the species is known from the east-Indo-west-central Pacific. |
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Etymology |
The specific name is from the Latin porosus (= pored, full of pores), possibly in reference to the many photophores seen from the underside of the fish. |
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Species Citation |
Neoscopelus porosus Arai 1969, Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo 12(3): 466, figs 1A, 2-3, pl. 1(3-4). Type locality: off Heta, Suruga Bay, Japan. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2025 |
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Spangleside Neoscopelid, Neoscopelus porosus Arai 1969
References
Arai, R. 1969. A new iniomous fish of the genus Neoscopelus from Suruga Bay, Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo 12(3): 465-471.
Paitio, J., Yano, D., Seesamut, T., Mizuno, G., et al. 2025. The filter in photophores of the deep-sea fish Neoscopelus (Neoscopelidae: Myctophiformes) and its role in counterillumination spectra. Journal of Fish Biology 107(2): 431–440. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70046
Williams, A. 2019. Neoscopelus porosus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T130353401A130414470. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T130353401A130414470.en. Accessed on 02 September 2025.
