World Register of Deep-Sea species - Dysalotus MacGilchrist, 1905

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Dysalotus MacGilchrist, 1905

AphiaID

159664 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159664)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Chiasmodontidae Jordan & Gilbert, 1883

Direct children (4)

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Species Dysalotus alcocki MacGilchrist, 1905
Species Dysalotus oligoscolus Johnson & Cohen, 1974
Species Dysalotus pouliulii Melo, 2017
Species Dysalotus macrodon Norman, 1929 accepted as Kali macrodon (Norman, 1929)

Environment

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

Original description

MacGilchrist, A. C. (1905). Natural history notes from the R. I. M. S. `Investigator,' Capt. T. H. Heming, R. N. (retired), commanding.--Series III., No. 8. On a new genus of teleostean fish closely allied to Chiasmodus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7). v. 15 (no. 87) (art. 28): 268-270. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Dysalotus MacGilchrist, 1905. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159664 on 2025-06-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-05-30 09:27:08Z

created

Cuvelier, Daphne

2013-03-11 11:05:30Z

checked

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description MacGilchrist, A. C. (1905). Natural history notes from the R. I. M. S. `Investigator,' Capt. T. H. Heming, R. N. (retired), commanding.--Series III., No. 8. On a new genus of teleostean fish closely allied to Chiasmodus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7). v. 15 (no. 87) (art. 28): 268-270. [details]

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

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

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Introduced: alien

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Definitions

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Language	Name
Japanese	トゲボウズギス属	[details]

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