Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Scopelogadus mizolepis
Ragged bigscale
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Teleostei
Order
Beryciformes
Family
Melamphaidae
Genus
Scopelogadus
Species
mizolepis
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Melamphaes cocles (Vaillant, 1888), Melamphaes mizolepis (Günther, 1878), Plectromus mizolepis (Günther, 1878), Scopelogadus cocles Vaillant, 1888, Scopelus mizolepis Günther, 1878 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: Indian and Atlantic: in tropical waters to 20-30°S. Western Pacific: Japan to Australia and New Zealand. Eastern Pacific: Chile (Froese and Pauly, 2021).
- 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.
- 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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Scopelogadus mizolepis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24801. Accessed 5 November 2026.