WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Fowler, H. W. (1929). New and little-known fishes from the Natal coast. <em>Annals of the Natal Museum.</em> 6 (2): 245-264. [details]
original description
(of Mimasea taeniosoma Kamohara, 1936) Kamohara, T. (1936). Supplementary note on the fishes collected in the vicinity of Kôchi-shi (X). <em>Dobutsugaku Zasshi = Zoological Magazine Tokyo.</em> v. 48 (no. 11): 929-935. [In Japanese, English summary of new taxa on p. 929.]. [details]
original description
(of Thyrsitoides jordanus Ajiad, Jafari & Mahasneh, 1987) Ajiad, A. M.; Jafari, R.; Mahasneh, D. M. (1987). Thyrsitoides jordanus (Teleostei: Gempylidae): a new species from the Gulf of Aqaba (Red Sea). <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India.</em> 24 (1-2) (1982): 12-14, Pl. 1. [details]
basis of record
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Ecologyecology 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] 
Otheradditional source
Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
Unreviewed
Description Often occurs at the surface at night around Okinawa, Japan. The largest populations are probably on the slope of seamounts or ridges. Sporadically recorded. Feeds on a variety of mesopelagic fish, squid and crustaceans. No special fishery exists for this species (Ref. 9784). [details]
From editor or global species database
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