Scopeloberyx opisthopterus (Parr, 1933)

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 98

Scopeloberyx opisthopterus (Parr, 1933) .

6.9 cm (2.7 in) SL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Circumglobal ( Kotlyar 2005); western Pacific Ocean north to Japan ( Kotlyar 2005); southern California (32°51’N, 121°14.9’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Peru ( Kotlyar 2005) . Bathypelagic; depth: at least 180–3,000 m (590–9,840 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California); 0–6,120 m (20,074 ft) based on fish taken by non-closing trawls ( Kotlyar 2005).