WoRMS taxon details
Ariosoma opistophthalmum (Ranzani, 1839)
398351 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:398351)
accepted
Species
Ariosoma opistophthalmus (Ranzani, 1839) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Conger opistophthalmus Ranzani, 1839 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Conger opistophthalmus Ranzani, 1839) Ranzani, C. (1839). De novis speciebus piscium. Dissertatio prima. <em>Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Instituti Bononiensis.</em> v. 4 [1840]: 65-83, Pls. 8-13. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Ariosoma opistophthalmum (Ranzani, 1839). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=398351 on 2026-05-11
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Conger opistophthalmus Ranzani, 1839) Ranzani, C. (1839). De novis speciebus piscium. Dissertatio prima. <em>Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Instituti Bononiensis.</em> v. 4 [1840]: 65-83, Pls. 8-13. [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]
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] 
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Conger opistophthalmus Ranzani, 1839)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Ariosoma opistophthalmus (Ranzani, 1839))
To FishBase (from synonym Conger opistophthalmus Ranzani, 1839)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Conger opistophthalmus Ranzani, 1839)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Ariosoma opistophthalmus (Ranzani, 1839))
To FishBase (from synonym Conger opistophthalmus Ranzani, 1839)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
