World Register of Deep-Sea species - Polyipnus asteroides Schultz, 1938

WoRMS taxon details

Polyipnus asteroides Schultz, 1938

$To FishBase images (Polyipnus asteroides, by NOAA\NMFS\Mississippi Laboratory)$

To FishBase images (Polyipnus asteroides, by NOAA\NMFS\Mississippi Laboratory)

AphiaID

158839 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158839)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Polyipnus Günther, 1887

Original name

Polyipnus asteroides Schultz, 1938

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Schultz, L. P. (1938). Review of the fishes of the genera Polyipnus and Argyropelecus (Family Sternoptichidae), with descriptions of three new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. v. 86 (no. 3047): 135-155. [details]

Descriptive notes

Distribution Caribbean Sea in the vicinity of the continental slope of South America, and off Puerto Rico. Also in the Gulf of Mexico to...

Distribution Caribbean Sea in the vicinity of the continental slope of South America, and off Puerto Rico. Also in the Gulf of Mexico to Grand Bank. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Polyipnus asteroides Schultz, 1938. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158839 on 2025-06-03

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-05-27 07:39:43Z

created

Cuvelier, Daphne

2008-01-15 17:27:08Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Schultz, L. P. (1938). Review of the fishes of the genera Polyipnus and Argyropelecus (Family Sternoptichidae), with descriptions of three new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. v. 86 (no. 3047): 135-155. [details]

basis of record Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. No. 219. 731 pp. [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. Scientific Data. 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 Welshman, D.; Kohler, S; Black, J.; and L. Van Guelpen. (2003). An atlas of distributions of Canadian Atlantic fishes. , available online at http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/FishAtlas/default.htm [details]

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas. 2002. November, 2002. [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unreviewed

Distribution Caribbean Sea in the vicinity of the continental slope of South America, and off Puerto Rico. Also in the Gulf of Mexico to Grand Bank. [details]

Habitat nektonic [details]

Habitat Found to depths of 500 m. [details]

Definitions