WoRMS taxon details
Tripterophycis gilchristi Boulenger, 1902
217739 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217739)
accepted
Species
Tripterophycis intermedius Whitley, 1948 · unaccepted
Trypterophycis gilchristii Boulenger, 1902 · unaccepted (misspelling)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Boulenger, G. A. (1903). Descriptions of two new deep-sea fishes from South Africa. <em>Marine Investigations in South Africa.</em> 1902, v. 2 (no. 11): 167-169, Pls. 11-12. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Tripterophycis gilchristi Boulenger, 1902. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217739 on 2026-01-15
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Nomenclature
original description
Boulenger, G. A. (1903). Descriptions of two new deep-sea fishes from South Africa. <em>Marine Investigations in South Africa.</em> 1902, v. 2 (no. 11): 167-169, Pls. 11-12. [details]
original description (of Tripterophycis intermedius Whitley, 1948) Whitley, G. P. (1948). Studies in ichthyology. No. 13. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> v. 22 (no. 1): 70-94. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
original description (of Tripterophycis intermedius Whitley, 1948) Whitley, G. P. (1948). Studies in ichthyology. No. 13. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> v. 22 (no. 1): 70-94. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., 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)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 431-554. [details]
additional source King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 431-554. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (18 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Tripterophycis intermedius Whitley, 1948)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Tripterophycis gilchristi)
To FishBase (from synonym Tripterophycis intermedius Whitley, 1948)
To FishBase (from synonym Trypterophycis gilchristii Boulenger, 1902)
To FishBase
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Tripterophycis intermedius Whitley, 1948)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Tripterophycis gilchristi)
To FishBase (from synonym Tripterophycis intermedius Whitley, 1948)
To FishBase (from synonym Trypterophycis gilchristii Boulenger, 1902)
To FishBase
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To ITIS
