WoRMS taxon details
Icosteus aenigmaticus Lockington, 1880
281153 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:281153)
accepted
Species
Acrotus willoughbyi Bean, 1888 · unaccepted
Schedophilopsis spinosus Steindachner, 1881 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Lockington, W. N. (1880). Description of a new genus and some new species of California fishes (Icosteus aenigmaticus and Osmerus attenuatus). <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> v. 3 (no. 123): 63-68. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Icosteus aenigmaticus Lockington, 1880. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=281153 on 2025-04-27
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Nomenclature
original description
Lockington, W. N. (1880). Description of a new genus and some new species of California fishes (Icosteus aenigmaticus and Osmerus attenuatus). <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> v. 3 (no. 123): 63-68. [details]
original description (of Acrotus willoughbyi Bean, 1888) Bean, T. H. (1888). Description of a new genus and species of fish, Acrotus willoughbyi, from Washington Territory. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> v. 10 (no. 672): 631-632. [details]
original description (of Schedophilopsis spinosus Steindachner, 1881) Steindachner, F. (1881). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Flussfische Südamerika's (III) und Ichthyologische Beiträge (XI). <em>Anzeiger der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse.</em> v. 18 (no. 11) : 97-100. [details]
original description (of Acrotus willoughbyi Bean, 1888) Bean, T. H. (1888). Description of a new genus and species of fish, Acrotus willoughbyi, from Washington Territory. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> v. 10 (no. 672): 631-632. [details]
original description (of Schedophilopsis spinosus Steindachner, 1881) Steindachner, F. (1881). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Flussfische Südamerika's (III) und Ichthyologische Beiträge (XI). <em>Anzeiger der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse.</em> v. 18 (no. 11) : 97-100. [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). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., 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 | ragfish | [details] |
| French | torchon mou | [details] |
| Japanese | イレズミコンニャクアジ | [details] |
| Russian | тряпичникРыба-тряпка | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (9 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) (from synonym Schedophilopsis spinosus Steindachner, 1881)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (24 publications) (from synonym Acrotus willoughbyi Bean, 1888)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (24 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Icosteus aenigmaticus)
To FishBase (from synonym Acrotus willoughbyi Bean, 1888)
To FishBase (from synonym Schedophilopsis spinosus Steindachner, 1881)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Icosteus aenigmaticus, by Van Orden, W.)
To GenBank (19 nucleotides; 24 proteins)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Icosteus aenigmaticus RAD107350-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Icosteus aenigmaticus RAD107351-003)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) (from synonym Schedophilopsis spinosus Steindachner, 1881)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (24 publications) (from synonym Acrotus willoughbyi Bean, 1888)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (24 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Icosteus aenigmaticus)
To FishBase (from synonym Acrotus willoughbyi Bean, 1888)
To FishBase (from synonym Schedophilopsis spinosus Steindachner, 1881)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Icosteus aenigmaticus, by Van Orden, W.)
To GenBank (19 nucleotides; 24 proteins)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Icosteus aenigmaticus RAD107350-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Icosteus aenigmaticus RAD107351-003)
To ITIS
