Range and Identity
Scopelosaurus harryi occurs from waters off Japan through northern Pacific regions and the California Current, including the Bering and Okhotsk seas. These records span very different oceanographic settings, so depth and region are useful additions to a species observation.
Habitat and Behavior
Larger individuals appear to occupy deeper water than smaller ones. Juveniles make nighttime vertical movements into the upper ocean. A surface-layer record after dark therefore need not describe the daytime depth of the same life stage, much less that of a larger adult.
Food and Life History
The compiled upper length is thirty-two centimeters standard length. Copepods and euphausiids are the principal recorded prey. The reproductive account describes simultaneous hermaphroditism, egg laying and planktonic larvae. These are species-level biological observations, not grounds for assuming a fixed spawning depth everywhere.
Field Note
Include the time of day and fish size with capture depth. All three help make sense of observations from a species with documented vertical movements.
All Lakes With Scaly Waryfish
Browse all lakes and reservoirs with confirmed Scaly Waryfish records in our database, listed alphabetically.
No published lakes are currently linked to this species in our confirmed records.