Notoscopelus japonicus (Tanaka, 1908)

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 71

* Notoscopelus japonicus (Tanaka, 1908) .

Fluorescent Lampfish or Spiny Lanternfish. To 14.8 cm (5.8 in) SL ( Watanabe et al. 1999). Western Pacific Ocean north to Hokkado, Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002); probable but not confirmed in eastern Pacific at latitudes west of southern British Columbia and California ( Peden and Hughes 1986 (table 1: “probable”) (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Depth: 60–657 m (197–2,155 ft) (min.: Watanabe et al. 1999; max.: Balanov et al. 2009).