WoRMS taxon details
Polyipnus asteroides Schultz, 1938
158839 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158839)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Schultz, L. P. (1938). Review of the fishes of the genera Polyipnus and Argyropelecus (Family Sternoptichidae), with descriptions of three new species. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> v. 86 (no. 3047): 135-155. [details]
Distribution Caribbean Sea in the vicinity of the continental slope of South America, and off Puerto Rico. Also in the Gulf of Mexico to...
Distribution Caribbean Sea in the vicinity of the continental slope of South America, and off Puerto Rico. Also in the Gulf of Mexico to Grand Bank. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Polyipnus asteroides Schultz, 1938. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158839 on 2025-04-24
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Nomenclature
original description
Schultz, L. P. (1938). Review of the fishes of the genera Polyipnus and Argyropelecus (Family Sternoptichidae), with descriptions of three new species. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> v. 86 (no. 3047): 135-155. [details]
basis of record Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. <em>Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> No. 219. 731 pp. [details]
basis of record Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. <em>Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> No. 219. 731 pp. [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Welshman, D.; Kohler, S; Black, J.; and L. Van Guelpen. (2003). An atlas of distributions of Canadian Atlantic fishes. , available online at http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/FishAtlas/default.htm [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas. 2002. November, 2002. [details]
additional source Welshman, D.; Kohler, S; Black, J.; and L. Van Guelpen. (2003). An atlas of distributions of Canadian Atlantic fishes. , available online at http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/FishAtlas/default.htm [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas. 2002. November, 2002. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Distribution Caribbean Sea in the vicinity of the continental slope of South America, and off Puerto Rico. Also in the Gulf of Mexico to Grand Bank. [details]Habitat nektonic [details]
Habitat Found to depths of 500 m. [details]
To Barcode of Life (9 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Polyipnus asteroides)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Polyipnus asteroides, by NOAA\NMFS\Mississippi Laboratory)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Polyipnus asteroides P07583 illustration)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Polyipnus asteroides USNM 298946 photograph)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Polyipnus asteroides)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Polyipnus asteroides, by NOAA\NMFS\Mississippi Laboratory)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Polyipnus asteroides P07583 illustration)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Polyipnus asteroides USNM 298946 photograph)
To ITIS
