WoRMS taxon details
Aldrovandia gracilis Goode & Bean, 1896
157880 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157880)
accepted
Species
Halosauropsis gracilis (Goode & Bean, 1896) · unaccepted
Halosaurus gracilis (Goode & Bean, 1896) · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Goode, G.B.; Bean, T.H. (1896). Oceanic Ichthyology, a treatise on the deep-sea and pelagic fishes of the world, based chiefly upon the collections made by the steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk in the northwestern Atlantic, with an atlas containing 417 figures. <em>Spec. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus.</em> Text: 2: i-xxxv + 1-26 + 1-553. Atlas: i-xxiii, 1-26. Pls. 123., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.48521 [details] 
Distribution Emerald Bank to Less Antilles
Distribution Emerald Bank to Less Antilles [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Aldrovandia gracilis Goode & Bean, 1896. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=157880 on 2026-07-13
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Nomenclature
original description
Goode, G.B.; Bean, T.H. (1896). Oceanic Ichthyology, a treatise on the deep-sea and pelagic fishes of the world, based chiefly upon the collections made by the steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk in the northwestern Atlantic, with an atlas containing 417 figures. <em>Spec. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus.</em> Text: 2: i-xxxv + 1-26 + 1-553. Atlas: i-xxiii, 1-26. Pls. 123., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.48521 [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [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 Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas. 2002. November, 2002. [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 Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas. 2002. November, 2002. [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]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Diet Feeds mainly on benthic organisms which includes pelecypods, amphipods, mysids, polychaetes and ophiuroids [details]Distribution Emerald Bank to Less Antilles [details]
Habitat nektonic [details]
Habitat Found on the continental slope and rise. [details]
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Halosaurus gracilis (Goode & Bean, 1896))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Aldrovandia gracilis)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Halosauropsis gracilis (Goode & Bean, 1896))
To FishBase (from synonym Halosaurus gracilis (Goode & Bean, 1896))
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 13 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Aldrovandia gracilis RAD118642-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Aldrovandria gracilis USNM 214337 photograph lateral view)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Halosaurus gracilis (Goode & Bean, 1896))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Aldrovandia gracilis)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Halosauropsis gracilis (Goode & Bean, 1896))
To FishBase (from synonym Halosaurus gracilis (Goode & Bean, 1896))
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 13 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Aldrovandia gracilis RAD118642-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Aldrovandria gracilis USNM 214337 photograph lateral view)
To ITIS
Unreviewed
Hosted externally
Hosted externally
