World Register of Deep-Sea species - Myctophum pterotum (Alcock, 1890)

WoRMS name details

Myctophum pterotum (Alcock, 1890)

AphiaID

301626 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:301626)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Benthosema pterotum (Alcock, 1890)

Rank

Species

Parent

Myctophum Rafinesque, 1810

Original name

Scopelus pterotus Alcock, 1890

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Subspecies Myctophum pterotum panamense Tåning, 1932 accepted as Benthosema panamense (Tåning, 1932)

Environment

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

Original description

(of Scopelus pterotus Alcock, 1890) Alcock, A. W. (1890). Natural history notes from H. M. Indian marine survey steamer `Investigator,' Commander R. F. Hoskyn, R. N., commanding.--No. 16. On the bathybial fishes collected in the Bay of Bengal during the season 1889-1890. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 6).</em> v. 6 (no. 33) (art. 26): 197-222, Pls. 8-9. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Myctophum pterotum (Alcock, 1890). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=301626 on 2025-05-28

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-02-28 13:41:07Z

created

Bailly, Nicolas

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Nomenclature

original description (of Scopelus pterotus Alcock, 1890) Alcock, A. W. (1890). Natural history notes from H. M. Indian marine survey steamer `Investigator,' Commander R. F. Hoskyn, R. N., commanding.--No. 16. On the bathybial fishes collected in the Bay of Bengal during the season 1889-1890. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 6).</em> v. 6 (no. 33) (art. 26): 197-222, Pls. 8-9. [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]

Other

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
To FishBase