Animalia > Chordata > Myctophiformes > Neoscopelidae > Neoscopelus > Neoscopelus macrolepidotus

Neoscopelus macrolepidotus (blackchin; Glowingfish; Largescale new lanternfish; Large-scaled lantern fish; Large-scaled lanternfish; Largescaled neoscopelid; Lanternfish)

Synonyms: Neoscopelus alcocki; Neoscopelus bruuni; Scopelus macrolepidotus
Language: Japanese; Malay; Mandarin Chinese

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Pacific Rim National Park Reserve II 137900 British Columbia, Canada

Prey / Diet

Diaphus coeruleus (Blue lanternfish)[1]

Predators

Beryx decadactylus (Alfonsino)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Bathymonorchis polyipni[3]
Dinosoma lophiomi[3]
Parachrisomon brotulidorum[3]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2Feeding habits of Beryx splendens and Beryx decadactylus (Berycidae) off the Canary Islands, J. Dürr, J.A. González, Fisheries Research 54 (2002) 363-374
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0