Neoscopelidae

blackchins

Familyaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 125499ITIS 162772key worms:125499

2026-08-05: itis_id 162772 via WoRMS external link

The Neoscopelidae are a small family of deep-sea fish closely related to the lanternfish. They are found in tropical and subtropical marine waters worldwide.W CalCOFI holds 18 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1988 and 2006, across 2 taxa under it.R

18
observations: 18
records: 1988–2006
years: 1
datasets: 1
species under it

Photo · NOAA Photo Library, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125499")

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it not on record

Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Under it 1 taxon

G Scopelengys18

Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Myctophiformes

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Myctophum punctatum · source
Photo · NOAA Photo Library, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Neoscopelidae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1292671830

Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

Wikidata iNaturalist GBIF

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.19

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