Scopelus lacertosus Sauvage 1870 (lanternfish)

Actinopteri - Myctophiformes - Myctophidae

Full reference: H. E. Sauvage. 1870. Synopsis des poissons tertiaires de Licata. Anales des Sciences Naturalles, Zoologie et Paleontologie 14:1-26

Belongs to Scopelus according to H. E. Sauvage 1870

See also Arambourg 1925, Carnevale 2007, Legendre et al. 2020, Sauvage 1873 and Woodward 1901

Sister taxa: Myctophum (Scopelus) evermani, Myctophum (Scopelus) humboldti, Myctophum (Scopelus) rufinum, Scopelus argenteus, Scopelus biarritzensis, Scopelus ellipticus, Scopelus excavatus, Scopelus fragilis, Scopelus frosti, Scopelus incisus, Scopelus kokeni, Scopelus laminatus, Scopelus latirostratus, Scopelus mammatus, Scopelus mediterraneus, Scopelus obliquus, Scopelus papuensis, Scopelus pulcher, Scopelus regularis, Scopelus splendidus, Scopelus sulcatus, Scopelus tenuis, Scopelus tutamoensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Licata, which is in a Messinian marine horizon in Italy

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Licata

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