Myctophiformes

ORDER MYCTOPHIFORMES Family Neoscopelidae Neoscopelus macrolepidotus Johnson, 1863 — Large-scaled lantern fish Not mentioned for Galicia by Hulley in Whitehead et al. (1986). Recorded from Galicia by Bañón et al. (2002). ** Neoscopelus microchir Matsubara, 1943 — No common name Not mentioned for Galicia by Hulley in Whitehead et al. (1986). Recorded from the Galicia Bank (Bañón et al., 1997). Family Myctophidae Myctophum punctatum Rafinesque, 1810 — Spotted lanternfish Diaphus dumerilii (Bleeker, 1856) — No common name Ten specimens between 4 and 8 cm TL caught at 365–563 m depth during “Demersales 97 and 06” surveys Ceratoscopelus maderensis (Lowe, 1839) — No common name Ceratoscopelus warmingii (Lütken, 1892) — No common name Uncertain status. Reported by Hulley in Whitehead et al. (1986) to south of 35 ºN and it is unreported by Quéro et al. (2003). Recorded for Galicia by Lozano y Rey (1947) as Lampanyctus townsendi, a synonym of C. warmingii. A revision of new specimens is needed. Lampadena urophaos atlantica Maul, 1969 — No common name Uncertain status. Not mentioned for Galicia neither by Hulley in Whitehead et al. (1986) nor by Quéro (2003). Recorded from Galicia by Arté (1952) and Anadón (1957) as L. nitida. Questionable as a synonym of L. urophaos atlantica (Solórzano et al., 1988). A revision of new specimens is required. Lampadena speculigera Goode & Bean, 1896 — Mirror lanternfish One specimen of 4 cm TL caught at 228 m depth during the survey “Demersales 93 ” Lampanyctus crocodilus (Risso, 1810) — Jewel lanternfish Lampanyctus photonotus Parr, 1928 — No common name Lampanyctus intricarius Taning, 1928 — No common name One specimen of 17 cm TL caught during the survey “Demersales 02” Notoscopelus kroeyeri (Malm, 1861) — Lancet fish Reported from Galicia by Solórzano et al. (1988) as N. elongatus. Benthosema glaciale (Reinhardt, 1838) — Glacier lanternfish