WoRMS taxon details
Brephostoma carpenteri Alcock, 1889
279989 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:279989)
accepted
Species
Brinkmannella elongata Parr, 1933 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Alcock, A. (1889). Natural history notes from H.M. Indian marine survey steamer 'Investigator', Commander Alfred Carpenter, R.N., D.S.O., commanding.---No. 13. On the bathybial fishes of the Bay of Bengal and neighbouring waters, obtained during the seasons 1885-1889. <em>The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology.</em> 4(6): 376-399., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19301868 [details] 
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Brephostoma carpenteri Alcock, 1889. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=279989 on 2026-07-09
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Nomenclature
original description
Alcock, A. (1889). Natural history notes from H.M. Indian marine survey steamer 'Investigator', Commander Alfred Carpenter, R.N., D.S.O., commanding.---No. 13. On the bathybial fishes of the Bay of Bengal and neighbouring waters, obtained during the seasons 1885-1889. <em>The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology.</em> 4(6): 376-399., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19301868 [details]
original description (of Brinkmannella elongata Parr, 1933) Parr, A. E. (1933). Deepsea Berycomorphi and Percomorphi from the waters around the Bahama and Bermuda islands. (Scientific results of the third oceanographic expedition of the "Pawnee" 1927.). <em>Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection Yale University.</em> v. 3 (art. 6): 1-51. [details]
original description (of Brinkmannella elongata Parr, 1933) Parr, A. E. (1933). Deepsea Berycomorphi and Percomorphi from the waters around the Bahama and Bermuda islands. (Scientific results of the third oceanographic expedition of the "Pawnee" 1927.). <em>Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection Yale University.</em> v. 3 (art. 6): 1-51. [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 Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | Carpenter's deepwater cardinalfish | [details] |
| Japanese | ウロコヤセムツ | [details] |
| Russian | Блефостома Карпентера | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) (from synonym Brinkmannella elongata Parr, 1933)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Brinkmannella elongata Parr, 1933)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Brephostoma carpenteri)
To FishBase (from synonym Brinkmannella elongata Parr, 1933)
To FishBase
To Genbank
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient) (from synonym Brinkmannella elongata Parr, 1933)
To ITIS
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) (from synonym Brinkmannella elongata Parr, 1933)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Brinkmannella elongata Parr, 1933)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Brephostoma carpenteri)
To FishBase (from synonym Brinkmannella elongata Parr, 1933)
To FishBase
To Genbank
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient) (from synonym Brinkmannella elongata Parr, 1933)
To ITIS
