WoRMS taxon details
Malacosteus niger Ayres, 1848
AphiaID: 127358
AphiaID: 127358
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Stomiiformes (Order) > Stomiidae (Family) > Malacosteinae (Subfamily) > Malacosteus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Malacosteus Ayres, 1848 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Malacosteus choristodactylus Vaillant, 1888 Malacosteus danae Regan & Trewavas, 1930 Malacosteus indicus Günther, 1878 (synonym) | |||||||||||||
| 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: Scott, W.B. and M.G. Scott. 1988. Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No. 219. 731 p. [details] additional source: Welshman, D., S. Kohler, J. Black 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: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details] additional source: Roberts, C.; Stewart, A.; Francis, M. (2009). Marine fishes (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: McEachran, J. D. 2009. Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [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 |
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part] [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] FAO fishing area 67 (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North East Pacific (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] North Pacific (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)
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| Links | To AnimalsAndEarth (David Shale) To Barcode of Life (21 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (77 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (15 nucleotides; 15 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: from West of Greenland to the Caribbean sea [details] Habitat: Found to depths of 2500 m. [details] Habitat: nektonic [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127358 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Malacosteus niger Ayres, 1848. 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=127358 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||
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