WoRMS taxon details
Gaidropsarus argentatus (Reinhardt, 1837)
126451 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126451)
accepted
Species
Gaidropsarus reinhardti (Collett, 1879) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Motella argentata Reinhardt, 1837 · unaccepted
Motella reinhardi Collett, 1879 · unaccepted
Motella reinhardti Collett, 1879 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Onogadus argentatus (Reinhardt, 1838) · unaccepted (Subsequent combination)
Onos argentatus (Reinhardt, 1837) · unaccepted
Onos reinhardi (Collett, 1879) · unaccepted
Onus reinhardti (Collett, 1879) · unaccepted (misspelling)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Motella argentata Reinhardt, 1837) Reinhardt, J.C.H. (1837). Ichthyologiske bidrag til den Grönlandske fauna. Indledning, indeholdende tillaeg og forandringer i den fabriciske fortegnelse paa Grönlandske hvirveldyr. <em>K. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Naturvid. Math. Afhandl.</em> 7: 83-196. [details]
Distribution Northern Atlantic: off southeastern coasts of Greenland, all but southern coast of Iceland, the Faroe-Shetland ridge to...
Distribution Northern Atlantic: off southeastern coasts of Greenland, all but southern coast of Iceland, the Faroe-Shetland ridge to Norwegian coasts north from Bergen. In the western North Atlantic from Greenland southward to off Baffin Island and Labrador to the Grand Bank. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Gaidropsarus argentatus (Reinhardt, 1837). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126451 on 2026-07-10
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Motella reinhardi Collett, 1879) Collett, R. (1879). Fiske fra Nordhavs-Expeditionens sidste Togt, Sommeren 1878. <em>Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-selskabet i Christiania (for 1878).</em> No. 14: 1-106.
page(s): 83, 87 [details]
original description (of Motella argentata Reinhardt, 1837) Reinhardt, J.C.H. (1837). Ichthyologiske bidrag til den Grönlandske fauna. Indledning, indeholdende tillaeg og forandringer i den fabriciske fortegnelse paa Grönlandske hvirveldyr. <em>K. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Naturvid. Math. Afhandl.</em> 7: 83-196. [details]
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, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details]
page(s): 83, 87 [details]
original description (of Motella argentata Reinhardt, 1837) Reinhardt, J.C.H. (1837). Ichthyologiske bidrag til den Grönlandske fauna. Indledning, indeholdende tillaeg og forandringer i den fabriciske fortegnelse paa Grönlandske hvirveldyr. <em>K. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Naturvid. Math. Afhandl.</em> 7: 83-196. [details]
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, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [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 Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. <em>Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> No. 219. 731 pp. [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 Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. <em>Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> No. 219. 731 pp. [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
Diet Feeds on decapod, amphipod, and euphausiid crustaceans, sometimes fishes are included in the diet. [details]Distribution Northern Atlantic: off southeastern coasts of Greenland, all but southern coast of Iceland, the Faroe-Shetland ridge to Norwegian coasts north from Bergen. In the western North Atlantic from Greenland southward to off Baffin Island and Labrador to the Grand Bank. [details]
Habitat benthic [details]
Habitat Occasionally found in Canadian Atlantic waters. Deepwater species. Found offshore at depths of 150- 2000 m on soft bottoms. [details]
Importance Social- Commercial, fishery [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | silvery rocklingsilver rocklingArctic rockling | [details] |
| French | mustèle argentée | [details] |
| Norwegian Bokmål | sølvtangbrosme | [details] |
| Norwegian Nynorsk | sølvtangbrosme | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (42 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Onogadus argentatus (Reinhardt, 1838))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Onos argentatus (Reinhardt, 1837))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Gaidropsarus reinhardti (Collett, 1879))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (29 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (31 publications) (from synonym Motella argentata Reinhardt, 1837)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Motella reinhardi Collett, 1879)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Onos reinhardi (Collett, 1879))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Motella reinhardti Collett, 1879)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Onus reinhardti (Collett, 1879))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gaidropsarus argentatus)
To FishBase (from synonym Onogadus argentatus (Reinhardt, 1838))
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Onos argentatus (Reinhardt, 1837))
To FishBase (from synonym Onos reinhardi (Collett, 1879))
To FishBase (from synonym Gaidropsarus reinhardti (Collett, 1879))
To FishBase (from synonym Motella reinhardi Collett, 1879)
To FishBase (from synonym Onus reinhardti (Collett, 1879))
To FishBase (from synonym Motella reinhardti Collett, 1879)
To FishBase (from synonym Motella argentata Reinhardt, 1837)
To GenBank (73 nucleotides; 61 proteins) (from synonym Motella argentata Reinhardt, 1837)
To GenBank (73 nucleotides; 61 proteins) (from synonym Onos argentatus (Reinhardt, 1837))
To GenBank (73 nucleotides; 61 proteins) (from synonym Onogadus argentatus (Reinhardt, 1838))
To GenBank (73 nucleotides; 61 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To NHMUK collection (Onogadus argentatus (Reinhardt, 1837); NHMUK:ecatalogue:2557313) (from synonym Onogadus argentatus (Reinhardt, 1838))
To PESI (from synonym Onogadus argentatus (Reinhardt, 1838))
To PESI
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Onogadus argentatus (Reinhardt, 1838))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Onos argentatus (Reinhardt, 1837))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Gaidropsarus reinhardti (Collett, 1879))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (29 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (31 publications) (from synonym Motella argentata Reinhardt, 1837)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Motella reinhardi Collett, 1879)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Onos reinhardi (Collett, 1879))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Motella reinhardti Collett, 1879)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Onus reinhardti (Collett, 1879))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gaidropsarus argentatus)
To FishBase (from synonym Onogadus argentatus (Reinhardt, 1838))
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Onos argentatus (Reinhardt, 1837))
To FishBase (from synonym Onos reinhardi (Collett, 1879))
To FishBase (from synonym Gaidropsarus reinhardti (Collett, 1879))
To FishBase (from synonym Motella reinhardi Collett, 1879)
To FishBase (from synonym Onus reinhardti (Collett, 1879))
To FishBase (from synonym Motella reinhardti Collett, 1879)
To FishBase (from synonym Motella argentata Reinhardt, 1837)
To GenBank (73 nucleotides; 61 proteins) (from synonym Motella argentata Reinhardt, 1837)
To GenBank (73 nucleotides; 61 proteins) (from synonym Onos argentatus (Reinhardt, 1837))
To GenBank (73 nucleotides; 61 proteins) (from synonym Onogadus argentatus (Reinhardt, 1838))
To GenBank (73 nucleotides; 61 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To NHMUK collection (Onogadus argentatus (Reinhardt, 1837); NHMUK:ecatalogue:2557313) (from synonym Onogadus argentatus (Reinhardt, 1838))
To PESI (from synonym Onogadus argentatus (Reinhardt, 1838))
To PESI
To ITIS
Unreviewed
Hosted externally, from synonym
