WoRMS taxon details
Ventrifossa nasuta (Smith, 1935)
217790 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217790)
accepted
Species
Lionurus nasutus Smith, 1935 · unaccepted
Macruroplus nasutus (Smith, 1935) · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Lionurus nasutus Smith, 1935) Smith, J. L. B. (1935). New and little known fishes from South Africa. <em>Records of the Albany Museum Grahamstown.</em> v. 4: 169-235, Pls. 18-23. [details]
Description Feeds primarily on fish (inlcuding Bregmaceros) and squid, but polychaetes and pagurid crabs have also been found in the...
Description Feeds primarily on fish (inlcuding Bregmaceros) and squid, but polychaetes and pagurid crabs have also been found in the stomach. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Ventrifossa nasuta (Smith, 1935). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217790 on 2026-07-09
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Lionurus nasutus Smith, 1935) Smith, J. L. B. (1935). New and little known fishes from South Africa. <em>Records of the Albany Museum Grahamstown.</em> v. 4: 169-235, Pls. 18-23. [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]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Description Feeds primarily on fish (inlcuding Bregmaceros) and squid, but polychaetes and pagurid crabs have also been found in the stomach. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | conesnout grenadier | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ventrifossa nasuta)
To FishBase (from synonym Macruroplus nasutus (Smith, 1935))
To FishBase (from synonym Lionurus nasutus Smith, 1935)
To FishBase
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Lionurus nasutus Smith, 1935)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ventrifossa nasuta)
To FishBase (from synonym Macruroplus nasutus (Smith, 1935))
To FishBase (from synonym Lionurus nasutus Smith, 1935)
To FishBase
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Lionurus nasutus Smith, 1935)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To ITIS
