Description

Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 15 - 18; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 16 - 18.

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Myctophiformes

Family: Myctophidae

Genus: Gymnoscopelus

Species: Gymnoscopelus opisthopterus Fraser-Brunner, 1949

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Oceanic and bathypelagic (Ref. 4066). Adults found usually deeper than 500 m, but larvae and juveniles in 66 to 200 m at temperatures of -0.18°C to 6.23°C.

Habitat

bathypelagic