WoRMS taxon details
Coelorinchus quadricristatus (Alcock, 1891)
280331 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:280331)
accepted
Species
Caelorinchus quadricristatus (Alcock, 1891) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Coelorhynchus quadricristatus (Alcock, 1891) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Macrurus quadricristatus Alcock, 1891 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Macrurus quadricristatus Alcock, 1891) Wood-Mason, J. & Alcock, A. (1891). Natural history notes from H.M. Indian marine survey steamer 'Investigator', Commander R.F. Hoskyn, R.N., commanding. Series II, No. 1. On the results of deep-sea dredging during the season 1890-1891. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (series 6) 8 (43): 16-34, pl. 7-8; 8 (44): 119-138; 8 (46): 268-286; 8 (47): 353-362; 8 (48): 427-452, pl. 17., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19244692 [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Coelorinchus quadricristatus (Alcock, 1891). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=280331 on 2026-02-18
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Macrurus quadricristatus Alcock, 1891) Wood-Mason, J. & Alcock, A. (1891). Natural history notes from H.M. Indian marine survey steamer 'Investigator', Commander R.F. Hoskyn, R.N., commanding. Series II, No. 1. On the results of deep-sea dredging during the season 1890-1891. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (series 6) 8 (43): 16-34, pl. 7-8; 8 (44): 119-138; 8 (46): 268-286; 8 (47): 353-362; 8 (48): 427-452, pl. 17., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19244692 [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
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Macrurus quadricristatus Alcock, 1891)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Coelorhynchus quadricristatus (Alcock, 1891))
To FishBase (from synonym Coelorhynchus quadricristatus (Alcock, 1891))
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Caelorinchus quadricristatus (Alcock, 1891))
To FishBase (from synonym Macrurus quadricristatus Alcock, 1891)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Coelorhynchus quadricristatus (Alcock, 1891))
To FishBase (from synonym Coelorhynchus quadricristatus (Alcock, 1891))
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Caelorinchus quadricristatus (Alcock, 1891))
To FishBase (from synonym Macrurus quadricristatus Alcock, 1891)
