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Neoscopelidae
glowingfish
Neoscopelus macrolepidotus
Twenty Five Centimeters Neoscopelid Fish of the Hawaiian Islands
- Transcontinental
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Central America and the Caribbean
- East Asia
- North America
- Oceania
- South America
- Elongated
- Medium
Transcontinental
Marine fish
Africa
Elongated
Mediumglowingfish is a marine fish from Eastern Atlantic. It inhabits marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 25 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Lanternfishes
- Family
- Neoscopelidae
- Genus
- Neoscopelus
- Maximum length
- 25 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Eastern Atlantic: Morocco to Western Sahara; reported from Namibia (Ref. 27121 ). Western Atlantic: off Suriname and Nicaragua, and off southern Brazil. Indian Ocean: off Natal, South Africa and in the Great Australian Bight in the eastern side. Western Pacific: Australia (Ref. 7300 ). Eastern Pacific: British Columbia, Canada (Ref. 11980 ) and the Hawaiian Islands. South China Sea and East China Sea (Ref.74511).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
