Scopelarchus analis
Scopelarchus analis, the short fin pearleye or blackbelly pearleye, is a species of ray-finned fish that can be found circumglobal in warm waters. It is a member of the Scopelarchus, a genus of pearleyes.
No picture of Scopelarchus analis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Scopelarchus analis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScopelarchusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Aulopiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Aulopiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Aulopiformes
Time the record covers
At least 4.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 129 ka.
5 occurrences of Scopelarchus analis on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
5 occurrences- Miocene60%
- Pleistocene40%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
2 formations
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The named rock units Scopelarchus analis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Scopelarchus analis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Scopelarchus analis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
131 taxa- Diaphus holti5 sites
- Lobianchia dofleini5 sites
- Notoscopelus elongatus5 sites
- Benthosema glaciale4 sites
- Diaphus rafinesquii4 sites
- Gadiculus argenteus4 sites
- Hygophum4 sites
- Scopelopsis pliocenicus4 sites
- Arnoglossus kokeni3 sites
- Bathygadus novus3 sites
- Benthosema fitchi3 sites
- Deltentosteus3 sites
- Diaphus befralai3 sites
- Diaphus metopoclampoides3 sites
- Diaphus splendidus3 sites
- Gadomus tejkali3 sites
- Hoplostethus praemediterraneus3 sites
- Hygophum derthonensis3 sites
- Lampadena dea3 sites
- Lampanyctus latesulcatus3 sites
- Lesueurigobius3 sites
- Myctophum3 sites
- Notoscopelus bolini3 sites
- Notoscopelus resplendens3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Scopelarchus analis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
4 references- Tortonian teleost otoliths from northern Italy: taxonomic synthesis and stratigraphic significance2
- Pleistocene marine fish invasions and paleoenvironmental reconstructions in the eastern Mediterranean1
- Tortonian fish otoliths from turbiditic deposits in Northern Italy: Taxonomic and stratigraphic significance1
- Paleobathymetric interpretation of the fish otoliths from the lower - middle quaternary deposits of Kephallonia and Zakynthos islands (Ionian Sea, Western Greece)1
Each of the 5 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Scopelarchus analis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Scopelarchus analis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Scopelarchus analis was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itScopelarchus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brauer 1902)