WoRMS taxon details
Bathypterois Günther, 1878
Bathypoterois · unaccepted (misspelling)
Bathypteroides · unaccepted (lapsus calami)
Belonepterois · unaccepted (misspelling)
Belonopterois Roule, 1916 · unaccepted (synonym)
Benthosaurus Goode & Bean, 1886 · unaccepted
Skagerakia Nybelin, 1947 · unaccepted
- Species Bathypterois andriashevi Sulak & Shcherbachev, 1988
- Species Bathypterois atricolor Alcock, 1896
- Species Bathypterois bigelowi Mead, 1958
- Species Bathypterois dubius Vaillant, 1888
- Species Bathypterois filiferus Gilchrist, 1906
- Species Bathypterois grallator (Goode & Bean, 1886)
- Species Bathypterois guentheri Alcock, 1889
- Species Bathypterois insularum Alcock, 1892
- Species Bathypterois longicauda Günther, 1878
- Species Bathypterois longifilis Günther, 1878
- Species Bathypterois longipes Günther, 1878
- Species Bathypterois mediterraneus Bauchot, 1962
- Species Bathypterois oddi Sulak, 1977
- Species Bathypterois parini Shcherbachev & Sulak, 1988
- Species Bathypterois pectinatus Mead, 1959
- Species Bathypterois perceptor Sulak, 1977
- Species Bathypterois phenax Parr, 1928
- Species Bathypterois quadrifilis Günther, 1878
- Species Bathypterois ventralis Garman, 1899
- Species Bathypterois viridensis (Roule, 1916)
- Species Bathypterois antennatus Gilbert, 1905 accepted as Bathypterois atricolor Alcock, 1896
- Species Bathypterois ater Gilchrist, 1906 accepted as Bathypterois phenax Parr, 1928
- Species Bathypterois capensis Gilchrist & von Bonde, 1924 accepted as Bathypterois filiferus Gilchrist, 1906
- Species Bathypterois guntheri Alcock, 1889 accepted as Bathypterois guentheri Alcock, 1889 (misspelling)
- Species Bathypterois marionae (Mead, 1958) accepted as Bathytyphlops marionae Mead, 1958
- Species Bathypterois nigrescens Parr, 1934 accepted as Bathypterois viridensis (Roule, 1916)
- Species Bathypterois pectoralis Garman, 1899 accepted as Bathypterois atricolor Alcock, 1896
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Günther, A. (1878). Preliminary notices of deep-sea fishes collected during the voyage of H. M. S. `Challenger. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 5).</em> 2 (nos 7/8/9)(art. 2/22/28): 17-28, 179-187, 248-251. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Bathypterois Günther, 1878. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125669 on 2025-04-30
Date
action
by
2006-09-06 06:55:51Z
changed
Martinez, Olga
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 License
Nomenclature
original description
Günther, A. (1878). Preliminary notices of deep-sea fishes collected during the voyage of H. M. S. `Challenger. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 5).</em> 2 (nos 7/8/9)(art. 2/22/28): 17-28, 179-187, 248-251. [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]
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]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
Other
context source (PeRMS)
Chirichigno, N.; Cornejo, M. (2001). Catálogo comentado de los peces marinos del Perú. <em>2ª ed. Instituto del Mar de Perú. Publicación Especial. Callao.</em> 314 p. [details]
additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | Spiderfish | [details] |
| Japanese | イトヒキイワシ属 | [details] |
| Russian | рыба-треногаБатиптер | [details] |
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Catalog of Fishes
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Bathypterois)
To Genbank
To NMNH Extant Collection (Bathypterois USNM 405045 photograph lateral view)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Bathypterois USNM 405046 photograph lateral view)
To ITIS
To Catalog of Fishes
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Bathypterois)
To Genbank
To NMNH Extant Collection (Bathypterois USNM 405045 photograph lateral view)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Bathypterois USNM 405046 photograph lateral view)
To ITIS
