WoRMS taxon details
Gymnelus retrodorsalis Le Danois, 1913
127095 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127095)
accepted
Species
Gymnelis retrodorsalis Le Danois, 1913 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Gymnelus esipovi Chernova, 1999 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Le Danois, E. (1913). Note sur un nouveau poisson de la famille des Lycodidae: le Gymnelis retrodorsalis nov. sp. <em>Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France.</em> v. 38: 258-259. [details]
Distribution North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean: Greenland, Jan Mayen and from Spitsbergen to Laptev Sea
Distribution North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean: Greenland, Jan Mayen and from Spitsbergen to Laptev Sea [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Gymnelus retrodorsalis Le Danois, 1913. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=127095 on 2026-07-01
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Nomenclature
original description
Le Danois, E. (1913). Note sur un nouveau poisson de la famille des Lycodidae: le Gymnelis retrodorsalis nov. sp. <em>Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France.</em> v. 38: 258-259. [details]
original description (of Gymnelus esipovi Chernova, 1999) Chernova, N. V. (1999). Four new species of Gymnelus (Zoarcidae) from the Arctic. <em>Voprosy Ikhtiologii.</em> 39 (3): 306-315. [In Russian. English translation in Journal of Ichthyology v. 39 (no. 5):343-352.]. [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]
original description (of Gymnelus esipovi Chernova, 1999) Chernova, N. V. (1999). Four new species of Gymnelus (Zoarcidae) from the Arctic. <em>Voprosy Ikhtiologii.</em> 39 (3): 306-315. [In Russian. English translation in Journal of Ichthyology v. 39 (no. 5):343-352.]. [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]
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). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [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]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Distribution North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean: Greenland, Jan Mayen and from Spitsbergen to Laptev Sea [details]Habitat inhabits continental shelves [details]
Habitat benthic [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | aurora pout | [details] |
| French | unernak aurore | [details] |
| Norwegian Bokmål | spitsbergenålebrosme | [details] |
| Norwegian Nynorsk | spitsbergenålebrosme | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) (from synonym Gymnelus esipovi Chernova, 1999)
To Barcode of Life (15 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Gymnelis retrodorsalis Le Danois, 1913)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gymnelus retrodorsalis)
To FishBase (from synonym Gymnelis retrodorsalis Le Danois, 1913)
To FishBase (from synonym Gymnelus esipovi Chernova, 1999)
To FishBase
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To PESI
To ITIS
To Barcode of Life (15 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Gymnelis retrodorsalis Le Danois, 1913)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gymnelus retrodorsalis)
To FishBase (from synonym Gymnelis retrodorsalis Le Danois, 1913)
To FishBase (from synonym Gymnelus esipovi Chernova, 1999)
To FishBase
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To PESI
To ITIS
