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Bathypterois dubius Vaillant, 1888 
AphiaID: 126342

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Aulopiformes (Order) > Ipnopidae (Family) > Bathypterois (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Bathypterois Günther, 1868
Synonymised
taxa		  Bathypterois mediterraneus Bauchot, 1962
Sources  basis of record: van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas. 2002. November, 2002.  [details]

additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

additional source: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English spiderfish  [details]
Turkish orumcek baligi (from synonym)  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
North West Atlantic [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Host of  Sarcotretes eristaliformis (Brian, 1908) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (31 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: Feeds on mysids and benthopelagic copepods [details]

Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: northeastern Atlantic to off Sierra Leone; one record from the Mediterranean; one record from the Northwestern Atlantic (Grand Banks) [details]

Habitat: Found on continental slope and rise between temperatures of 12°C to 4°C. Usually solitary; probably forms occasional aggregates. [details]

Habitat: benthic [details]

Reproduction: Synchronously hermaphroditic  [details]
Image 
Bathypterois dubius
Bathypterois dubius
added on 2013-02-18 - author: Alexei Orlov ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126342
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2005-08-01 12:12:31Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Bathypterois dubius Vaillant, 1888. In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126342 on 2013-05-24
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