WoRMS taxon details

Lophiodes mutilus (Alcock, 1894)

217837  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217837)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Lophius mutilus Alcock, 1894) Alcock, A. W. (1894). Natural history notes from H. M. Indian marine survey steamer, `Investigator,' Commander C. F. Oldham, R. N., commanding. Series II., No. 9. An account of the deep sea collection made during the season of 1892-93. <em>Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.</em> v. 62 (pt 2, No. 4): 169-184, Pls. 8-9. [Volume for 1893 actually issued in 1894. Also as a separate with dual pagination.]. [details]   
Description Found on the outer continental shelf and upper slope. Feeds mainly on fishes.  
Description Found on the outer continental shelf and upper slope. Feeds mainly on fishes. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Lophiodes mutilus (Alcock, 1894). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217837 on 2024-03-19
Date
action
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1997-02-24 18:26:33Z
created
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
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original description  (of Lophius mutilus Alcock, 1894) Alcock, A. W. (1894). Natural history notes from H. M. Indian marine survey steamer, `Investigator,' Commander C. F. Oldham, R. N., commanding. Series II., No. 9. An account of the deep sea collection made during the season of 1892-93. <em>Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.</em> v. 62 (pt 2, No. 4): 169-184, Pls. 8-9. [Volume for 1893 actually issued in 1894. Also as a separate with dual pagination.]. [details]   

original description  (of Lophius lugubris Alcock, 1894) Alcock, A. W. (1894). Natural history notes from H. M. Indian marine survey steamer `Investigator,', Commander C. F. Oldham, R. N., commanding. Series II., No. 11. An account of a recent collection of bathybial fishes from the Bay of Bengal and from the Laccadive Sea. <em>Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.</em> v. 63 (pt 2): 115-137, Pls. 6-7. [Also as a separate, pp. 1-23, with original pagination at bottom.]. [details]   

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

basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2023). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2023)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]   

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]  OpenAccess publication 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Description Found on the outer continental shelf and upper slope. Feeds mainly on fishes. [details]

Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]

Remark Date Eschmeyer, pers. comm. [details]
LanguageName 
English smooth angler  [details]
Japanese メダマアンコウ  [details]