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Bathylaco Goode & Bean, 1896

AphiaID

125871 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125871)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Alepocephalidae Bonaparte, 1846

Synonymised names

Macromastax Beebe, 1933 · unaccepted

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Species Bathylaco macrophthalmus Nielsen & Larsen, 1968
Species Bathylaco nielseni Sazonov & Ivanov, 1980
Species Bathylaco nigricans Goode & Bean, 1896
Species Bathylaco kreffti Nielsen & Larsen, 1970 accepted as Herwigia kreffti (Nielsen & Larsen, 1970)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Goode, G.B.; Bean, T.H. (1896). Oceanic Ichthyology, a treatise on the deep-sea and pelagic fishes of the world, based chiefly upon the collections made by the steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk in the northwestern Atlantic, with an atlas containing 417 figures. Spec. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. Text: 2: i-xxxv + 1-26 + 1-553. Atlas: i-xxiii, 1-26. Pls. 123., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.48521 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Bathylaco Goode & Bean, 1896. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125871 on 2026-08-08

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2006-09-06 06:55:51Z

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Martinez, Olga

2010-05-06 09:57:44Z

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Bailly, Nicolas

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

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Bailly, Nicolas

2014-12-02 12:48:54Z

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Bailly, Nicolas

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Nomenclature

original description Goode, G.B.; Bean, T.H. (1896). Oceanic Ichthyology, a treatise on the deep-sea and pelagic fishes of the world, based chiefly upon the collections made by the steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk in the northwestern Atlantic, with an atlas containing 417 figures. Spec. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. Text: 2: i-xxxv + 1-26 + 1-553. Atlas: i-xxiii, 1-26. Pls. 123., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.48521 [details]

original description (of Macromastax Beebe, 1933) Beebe, W. (1933). Deep-sea isospondylous fishes. Two new genera and four new species. Zoologica. 13(8): 159-167., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/p.190350 [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, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details]

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

Other

additional source Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]