WoRMS name details
Rhinoscopelus Lütken, 1892
297682 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:297682)
unaccepted
Genus
- Species Rhinoscopelus cocco (Cocco, 1829) accepted as Gonichthys cocco (Cocco, 1829)
- Species Rhinoscopelus coccoi (Cocco, 1829) accepted as Gonichthys cocco (Cocco, 1829) (misspelling)
- Species Rhinoscopelus oceanicus Jordan & Evermann, 1903 accepted as Myctophum affine (Lütken, 1892) (ambiguous synonym)
- Species Rhinoscopelus rarus (Lütken, 1892) accepted as Loweina rara (Lütken, 1892)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Rhinoscopelus oceanicus Jordan & Evermann, 1903) Jordan, D. S.; Evermann B. W. (1903). Descriptions of new genera and species of fishes from the Hawaiian Islands. <em>Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission.</em> v. 22 (1902): 161-208. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Rhinoscopelus Lütken, 1892. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=297682 on 2026-10-13
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Nomenclature
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(of Rhinoscopelus oceanicus Jordan & Evermann, 1903) Jordan, D. S.; Evermann B. W. (1903). Descriptions of new genera and species of fishes from the Hawaiian Islands. <em>Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission.</em> v. 22 (1902): 161-208. [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]
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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
