1976 年 22 巻 4 号 p. 227-233
Three species of Notoscopelus: N.japonicus, N.resplendens, and N.caudispinosus were found in Japan.The last species is first time recorded from the western North Pacific, and the second species is recorded here for the second time from Japan.These three species are described and compared with specimens from other parts of the world.The type specimen of N.japonicus was found to be in Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, with the catalogue number FMNH 80459, and errors in the original description on numbers of various photophores are corrected in this report.