Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Scopelengy whoi Mead, 1963, Scopelengys dispar Garman, 1899, Scopelengys fristis Alcock, 1890, Scopelengys lugubris Garman, 1899, Scopelengys tristes Alcock, 1890, Scopelengys whoi Mead, 1963(Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

Distribution: Western Indian Ocean: 6°N to 34°S. Probably Somalia. Western Pacific. Eastern Pacific: southern California, USA to Chile. Western Atlantic: off Venezuela and Guianas. Eastern Atlantic: Morocco to Angola; one record from South Africa. South China Sea and East China Sea (Froese and Pauly, 2021).

• Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
• Froese, R. D. Pauly. Eds. (2021) FishBase World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org,
• Grove, J.S. Long, D.J., Robertson, D.R. & Victor, B.C. (2022) List of Fishes of the Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 39, 14–22.
• IUCN (2023) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-2 Https://www.iucnredlist.org