Scopelus obliquus Weiler 1943 (lanternfish)

Actinopteri - Myctophiformes - Myctophidae

Full reference: W. Weiler. 1943. Die Otolithen aus dem Jungtertiär Süd-Rumäniens. 1. Buglow und Sarmat. Senkenbergiana 26:87-115

Belongs to Scopelus according to W. Weiler 1950

See also Weiler 1943

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 lacertosus, Scopelus laminatus, Scopelus latirostratus, Scopelus mammatus, Scopelus mediterraneus, Scopelus papuensis, Scopelus pulcher, Scopelus regularis, Scopelus splendidus, Scopelus sulcatus, Scopelus tenuis, Scopelus tutamoensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Melicesti, which is in a Serravallian marine horizon in Romania

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Melicesti

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