Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico Author Love, Milton S. 0000-0003-0981-0061 love@lifesci.ucsb.edu Author Bizzarro, Joseph J. 0000-0002-2412-9357 joe.bizzarro@noaa.gov Author Cornthwaite, Maria 0000-0002-1528-3272 maria.cornthwaite@dfo-mpo.gc.ca Author Frable, Benjamin W. 0000-0003-4525-0671 bfrable@ucsd.edu Author Maslenikov, Katherine P. 0000-0003-0981-0061 love@lifesci.ucsb.edu text Zootaxa 2021 2021-10-19 5053 1 1 285 journal article 2792 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 75ffcff3-6336-4f6a-8d0b-94c082519099 1175-5326 5578008 295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 Pseudoscopelus scriptus Lütken, 1892 . Luminous Swallower . To 17.2 cm ( 7.5 in ) SL (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Okamura in Okamura et al. 1985 ) and southern Kuril Islands ( Parin et al. 1995 ); western Bering Sea off northeastern Kamchatka and vicinity of Commander Islands ( Sheiko and Fedorov 2000 ); one specimen taken in “NMFS Area 670, 47°30’N to 50°30’N ” (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington, UW 153507); probably inhabits deep waters north and south of the Aleutian Islands and in the Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Mesopelagic and bathypelagic; depth: 200–2,100 m ( 656–6,890 ft ) (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). A taxon with confused taxonomy. The western Pacific form Pseudoscopelus scriptus sagamianus Tanaka, 1908 , has been treated as a separate species, P. sagamianus ( Melo et al. 2007 , Prokofiev 2009 ). Fricke et al. (2020) do not recognize the genus Pseudoscopelus from within our range.