Description

Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 17 - 19; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 19 - 21.

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Myctophiformes

Family: Myctophidae

Genus: Gymnoscopelus

Species: Gymnoscopelus nicholsi (Gilbert, 1911)

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

South of the Antarctic Polar Front, adults occur in upper 250 m of open ocean and over continental shelves and oceanic banks (spring-summer) during the day, migrating to 50- 100 m at night. Also mesopelagic (Ref. 4066). Feeds on euphausiids and euphausiid larvae, hyperiids, mysids, copepods, and amphipods.

Habitat

bathypelagic