WoRMS taxon details
Macroparalepis johnfitchi (Rofen, 1960)
398375 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:398375)
accepted
Species
Lestidium johnfitchi Rofen, 1960 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Lestidium johnfitchi Rofen, 1960) Rofen, R. R. (1960). Lestidium johnfitchi, a new bathypelagic fish of the family Paralepididae from off California. <em>Copeia.</em> 1959 (no. 4): 284-288. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Macroparalepis johnfitchi (Rofen, 1960). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=398375 on 2025-12-17
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Lestidium johnfitchi Rofen, 1960) Rofen, R. R. (1960). Lestidium johnfitchi, a new bathypelagic fish of the family Paralepididae from off California. <em>Copeia.</em> 1959 (no. 4): 284-288. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). 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). (2025). 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] 
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Macroparalepis johnfitchi)
To FishBase (from synonym Lestidium johnfitchi Rofen, 1960)
To FishBase
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 7 proteins) (from synonym Lestidium johnfitchi Rofen, 1960)
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 7 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Macroparalepis johnfitchi)
To FishBase (from synonym Lestidium johnfitchi Rofen, 1960)
To FishBase
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 7 proteins) (from synonym Lestidium johnfitchi Rofen, 1960)
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 7 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
