title: Gymnoscopelus
text: # Gymnoscopelus
  
  Gymnoscopelus is a genus of lanternfishes. The name is from the Greek gymnos, "naked" and skopelos, "lanternfish."
  
  They can live in extremely cold water; two species, Gymnoscopelus nicholsi and Gymnoscopelus braueri, have been recorded at up to 75°S in the Ross Sea.
  
  ## Species
  
  There are currently eight recognized species in this genus:
  
  * Gymnoscopelus bolini Andriashev, 1962
  * Gymnoscopelus braueri (Lönnberg, 1905)
  * Gymnoscopelus fraseri (Fraser-Brunner, 1931)
  * Gymnoscopelus hintonoides Hulley, 1981 (False-midas lanternfish)
  * Gymnoscopelus microlampas Hulley, 1981 (Minispotted lanternfish)
  * Gymnoscopelus nicholsi (C. H. Gilbert, 1911) (Nichol's lanternfish)
  * Gymnoscopelus opisthopterus Fraser-Brunner, 1949
  * Gymnoscopelus piabilis (Whitley, 1931) (Southern blacktip lanternfish)
  