Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Collettia rafinesquei (Cocco, 1838), Collettia rafinesquii (Cocco, 1838), Diaphus intermedius Borodin, 1930, Diaphus rafinesquei (Cocco, 1838), Myctophum rafinesquei (Cocco, 1838), Myctophum rafinesquii (Cocco, 1838), Nyctophus rafinesquii Cocco, 1838, Scopelus rafinesqui (Cocco, 1838), Scopelus rafinesquii (Cocco, 1838)(Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: British Isles to Mauritania including the Mediterranean and Iceland. Western Atlantic: north of the Gulf Stream. Northwest Atlantic: Canada. Also reported from the Indian and the Pacific Oceans (Froese and Pauly, 2021).

• Froese, R. D. Pauly. Eds. (2021) FishBase World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org,
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• 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.