WoRMS name details
Alepocephalus macropterus Vaillant, 1888
236139 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:236139)
unaccepted (Basionym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Vaillant, L. L. (1888). Expéditions scientifiques du "Travailleur" et du "Talisman" pendant les années 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883. <em>Poissons. Paris.</em> 1-406, Pls. 1-28., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.13677 [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Alepocephalus macropterus Vaillant, 1888. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=236139 on 2026-07-04
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Nomenclature
original description
Vaillant, L. L. (1888). Expéditions scientifiques du "Travailleur" et du "Talisman" pendant les années 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883. <em>Poissons. Paris.</em> 1-406, Pls. 1-28., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.13677 [details]
basis of record Eschmeyer, N.M., K.V. Rama-Rao & L.E. Hallacher (1979). Fishes of the Scorpionfish subfamily Choridactylinae from the Western Pacific and the Indian Ocean. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. Fourth Series. Vol.XLI (21): 475-500. [details]
basis of record Eschmeyer, N.M., K.V. Rama-Rao & L.E. Hallacher (1979). Fishes of the Scorpionfish subfamily Choridactylinae from the Western Pacific and the Indian Ocean. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. Fourth Series. Vol.XLI (21): 475-500. [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Natural History Museum, London (NHM): Collections Management Database System. [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
