Genus of fishes
Dasyscopelus is a genus of lanternfish, family Myctophidae.
Taxonomy.
"Dasyscopelus" was originally described as a subgenus of "Scopelus" (now "Myctophum") by Albert Günther in 1864. Later on, starting from Bolin (1959), it was treated as a synonym of "Myctophum". "Dasyscopelus" was resurrected and treated as full genus based on molecular data by Martin and colleagues in 2018. There are no definite morphological characters distinguishing these genera.
Species.
There are currently four recognized species in this genus:
References.
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