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Scopelarchidae

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
FAMILY
Published in
Alcock, A. W. (1896). Natural history notes from H. M. Indian marine survey steamer `Investigator,' Commander C. F. Oldham, R. N., commanding. Series II. No. 23. A supplementary list of the marine fishes of India, with descriptions of two new genera and eight new species. <em>Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.</em> v. 65 (pt 2, No. 3): 301-338.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Aulopiformes
family
Scopelarchidae

Name

Homonyms
Scopelarchidae
Scopelarchidae
Common names
Pearleyes in English
ojos de perla in Spanish
pearleyes in English
yeux-perlés in French
Pearleyes in English
pearleyes in English
デメエソ科 in Japanese

Bibliographic References

  1. Alcock, A. W. (1896). Natural history notes from H. M. Indian marine survey steamer `Investigator,' Commander C. F. Oldham, R. N., commanding. Series II. No. 23. A supplementary list of the marine fishes of India, with descriptions of two new genera and eight new species. <em>Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.</em> v. 65 (pt 2, No. 3): 301-338.
  2. Baldwin, Carole C., and G. D. Johnson / Stiassny, M. L .J., L. R. Parenti, and G. D. Johnson, eds., 1996: Interrelationships of Aulopiformes. Interrelationships of Fishes. 355-404.
  3. Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp.
  4. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (online version), 2012 version.
  5. FishBase
  6. Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025.
  7. Mecklenburg, Catherine W., T. Anthony Mecklenburg, and Lyman K. Thorsteinson, 2002: null. Fishes of Alaska. xxxvii + 1037.
  8. Moore, Jon A., Karsten E. Hartel, James E. Craddock, and John K. Galbraith, 2003: An annotated list of deepwater fishes from off the New England region, with new area records. Northeastern Naturalist, vol. 10, no. 2. 159-248.
  9. Nelson, Joseph S., 1994: null. Fishes of the World, Third Edition. xvii + 600.
  10. Nelson, Joseph S., Edwin J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L. T. Findley, C. R. Gilbert, et al., eds., 2004: Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Sixth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 29. ix + 386.
  11. Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes.
  12. Paxton, J. R., and V. H. Niem / Carpenter, Kent E., and Volker H. Niem, eds., 1999: Scopelarchidae: Pearleyes. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes: The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific, vol. 3: Batoid fishes, chimaeras and Bony fishes, part 1 (Elopidae to Linophrynidae). 1925-1926.
  13. Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3882(1): 1-230.
  14. Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3882(1): 1-230.
  15. van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 357-374
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