Notoscopelus resplendens (Richardson, 1845)

Notoscopelus resplendens (Richardson, 1845) View in CoL .

Patchwork Lampfish. To 9.8 cm ( 3.9 in) TL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan and southern Kuril Islands ( Parin et al. 1995) to British Columbia ( Peden 2003) and to southern California and to Chile ( Wisner 1976). Mesopelagic (Hulley and Paxton in Carpenter and De Angelis 2016); depth: surface to 4,268 m ( 13,999 ft) (min.: Hulley in Smith and Heemstra 1986; max.: Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California). Although Clemens and Wilby (1961) and Hart (1973) give 13.5 cm ( 5.3 in) for the maximum length, this evidently comes from a British Columbia fish (Hart’s illustration (page 195) is of a 13-cm fish in the UBC collection) which is not this species but may be a misidentified Lampanyctus species ( Peden et al. 1985, Peden and Hughes 1986).