''Persparsia kopua'', the spangled tubeshoulder, is a species of

tubeshoulder The tubeshoulders are a family, Platytroctidae, of ray-finned fish belonging to the order Alepocephaliformes Alepocephaliformes is an order of marine deep-sea teleost fishes. It was previously classified as the suborder Alepocephaloidei of the ...

found around the world in the southern hemisphere (apart from

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...

) between latitudes 30° S and 50° S and at depths of . Its length is up to TL. ''Persparsia kopua'' is a

mesopelagic The mesopelagic zone (Greek language, Greek μέσον, middle), also known as the middle pelagic or twilight zone, is the part of the pelagic zone that lies between the photic epipelagic and the aphotic bathypelagic zones. It is defined by light ...

species.

References

Platytroctidae Monotypic ray-finned fish genera Fish described in 1951 {{Alepocephaliformes-stub