Deep-Sea taxon details
Dysalotus alcocki MacGilchrist, 1905
159665 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159665)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
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. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7).</em> v. 15 (no. 87) (art. 28): 268-270. [details]
Distribution Tropical and subtropical Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, as far north as 40°N in Canadian Atlantic. Known from...
Distribution Tropical and subtropical Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, as far north as 40°N in Canadian Atlantic. Known from relatively few, widely scattered localities from the Sargasso Sea to equatorial Pacific at 137°16'W. Eastern Atlantic: Known from four stations within 06°N to 10°S, three of these are within the Gulf of Guinea [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Dysalotus alcocki MacGilchrist, 1905. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159665 on 2025-05-17
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Dysalotus alcocki MacGilchrist, 1905. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159665 on 2025-05-17
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. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7).</em> v. 15 (no. 87) (art. 28): 268-270. [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [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]
additional source Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas. 2002. November, 2002. [details]
additional source McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [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]
additional source Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas. 2002. November, 2002. [details]
additional source McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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 Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Distribution Tropical and subtropical Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, as far north as 40°N in Canadian Atlantic. Known from relatively few, widely scattered localities from the Sargasso Sea to equatorial Pacific at 137°16'W. Eastern Atlantic: Known from four stations within 06°N to 10°S, three of these are within the Gulf of Guinea [details]Habitat oceanic species [details]
Habitat nektonic [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | トゲボウズギス | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Dysalotus alcocki)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Dysalotus alcocki, by SFSA)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 31 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Dysalotus alcocki)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Dysalotus alcocki, by SFSA)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 31 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
