WoRMS taxon details
Pontinus longispinis Goode & Bean, 1896
159555 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159555)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
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. <em>Spec. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus.</em> Text: 2: i-xxxv + 1-26 + 1-553. Atlas: i-xxiii, 1-26. Pls. 123. [details]
Distribution Western Atlantic: Georgia, USA and northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil; not occurring in the West Indies; MCZ 64854 from...
Distribution Western Atlantic: Georgia, USA and northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil; not occurring in the West Indies; MCZ 64854 from 39.3oN, -72.38oW [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Pontinus longispinis Goode & Bean, 1896. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159555 on 2025-06-30
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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. <em>Spec. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus.</em> Text: 2: i-xxxv + 1-26 + 1-553. Atlas: i-xxiii, 1-26. Pls. 123. [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]
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]
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)
Census of Marine Life (2012). SYNDEEP: Towards a first global synthesis of biodiversity, biogeography and ecosystem function in the deep sea. Unpublished data (datasetID: 3), available online at http://www.comlsecretariat.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/SYNDEEP-Towards-a-first-global-synthesis-of-biodiversity-biogeography-and-ecosystem-function-in-the-deep-sea-Eva-Ramirez-Llodra-et-al..pdf [details]
additional source McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
additional source McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Dimensions max. 250 mm TL [details]Distribution Western Atlantic: Georgia, USA and northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil; not occurring in the West Indies; MCZ 64854 from 39.3oN, -72.38oW [details]
Habitat benthic [details]
Habitat demersal, on soft substrate from 75 - 440 m [details]
Importance venomous [details]
To Barcode of Life (14 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pontinus longispinis)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Pontinus longispinis, by Flescher, D.)
To FishSounds
To GenBank (25 nucleotides; 30 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Pontinus longispinis RAD112836-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Sebastoplus longispinis P06888 illustration)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pontinus longispinis)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Pontinus longispinis, by Flescher, D.)
To FishSounds
To GenBank (25 nucleotides; 30 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Pontinus longispinis RAD112836-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Sebastoplus longispinis P06888 illustration)
To ITIS
