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Scopelarchidae
short fin pearleye
Scopelarchus analis
Larvae possess planktonic habits
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- Elongated
- Small
Northern Hemisphere
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Elongated
Smallshort fin pearleye is known from Circumglobal in warm waters as a marine fish. It occurs in deep water.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Scopelarchidae
- Genus
- Scopelarchus
- Maximum length
- 12.6 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Circumglobal in warm waters. Eastern Pacific: California Current region off southern California to the Baja California Peninsula. Western Atlantic: Off southeastern USA, the Bahamas, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea (Ref. 37039 ). Northwest Atlantic: Canada (Ref. 5951 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
