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Melamphaidae
Bean's bigscale
Scopelogadus beanii
Melamphaid Fish Reaching Twelve Point Two Centimeters
Bean's bigscale is a marine fish from Southwest Pacific. It inhabits deep water. Records give a maximum length of 12.2 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Melamphaidae
- Genus
- Scopelogadus
- Maximum length
- 12.2 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Southwest Pacific: New South Wales, Australia (Ref. 7300 ) and New Zealand (Ref. 5755 ). Southeast Pacific: Chile (Ref. 9068 ). Also in the Atlantic and southern Indian Oceans.
- Conservation status
- DDData Deficient

