WoRMS taxon details

Coryphaenoides rupestris Gunnerus, 1765

To FishBase images (<i>Coryphaenoides rupestris</i>, Canada, by Garazo Fabregat, A.)
To FishBase images (Coryphaenoides rupestris, Canada, by Garazo Fabregat, A.)

158960  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158960)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Chordata (Phylum)
  4. Vertebrata (Subphylum)
  5. Gnathostomata (Infraphylum)
  6. Osteichthyes (Parvphylum)
  7. Actinopterygii (Gigaclass)
  8. Actinopteri (Superclass)
  9. Teleostei (Class)
  10. Gadiformes (Order)
  11. Macrouridae (Family)
  12. Macrourinae (Subfamily)
  13. Coryphaenoides (Genus)
  14. Coryphaenoides rupestris (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Gunnerus, J. E. (1765). Efterretning om Berglaxen, en rar Norsk fisk, som kunde kaldes: Coryphaenoides rupestris. <em>Der Trondhiemske Selskabs Skrifter.</em> v. 3: 50-58, Pl. 3. [German translation appeared in Der Drontheimischen Gesellschaft Schriften v. 3, 1767: 43-50.]. [details] 
Distribution Western North Atlantic from Davis Strait, along the coast of Labrador, off Newfoundland, and the Grand Bank southward to...  
Distribution Western North Atlantic from Davis Strait, along the coast of Labrador, off Newfoundland, and the Grand Bank southward to Cape Hatteras, NC. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Coryphaenoides rupestris Gunnerus, 1765. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158960 on 2025-05-04
Date
action
by
2005-05-27 07:39:43Z
created
Cuvelier, Daphne
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
changed
Bailly, Nicolas

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Nomenclature

original description Gunnerus, J. E. (1765). Efterretning om Berglaxen, en rar Norsk fisk, som kunde kaldes: Coryphaenoides rupestris. <em>Der Trondhiemske Selskabs Skrifter.</em> v. 3: 50-58, Pl. 3. [German translation appeared in Der Drontheimischen Gesellschaft Schriften v. 3, 1767: 43-50.]. [details] 

original description (of Lepidoleprus norvegicus Nilsson, 1832) Nilsson, S. (1832). Prodromus ichthyologiae Scandinavicae. <em>Lundae.</em> i-iv + 1-124. [details] 

basis of record Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. <em>Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> 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. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] OpenAccess publication

Other

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

context source (RAS) Australian Antarctic Data Centre. , available online at https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/ [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] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Diet Feeds mainly on shrimps, amphipods, cephalopods and lantern fishes  [details]

Distribution Western North Atlantic from Davis Strait, along the coast of Labrador, off Newfoundland, and the Grand Bank southward to Cape Hatteras, NC. [details]

Habitat nektonic [details]

Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]

Habitat Found at depths of 400- 1200 m. [details]

Reproduction External fertilization.Spawns in late autumn.Spawning grounds assumed to be at depths greater than 850 m; not viviparous  [details]
    Definitions

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LanguageName 
Danish skolæst  [details]
Dutch rondneusgrenadiervis  [details]
English roundnose grenadierroundhead rat-tailrock grenadier  [details]
French grenadier de roche  [details]
German Rundnasen-Grenadier  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål skolest  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk skolest  [details]
Swedish storfjällig skolästskoläst  [details]
Welsh cynffon llygoden  [details]
Marine Life Information Network - UK (from synonym Coryphaenoides (Coryphaenoides) rupestris Gunnerus, 1765)
To Barcode of Life (9 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications) (from synonym Coryphaena rupestris (Gunnerus, 1765))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Macrurus norvegicus (Nilsson, 1832))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (54 publications) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (71 publications) (from synonym Macrurus rupestris (Gunnerus, 1765))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Macrourus stroemii Reinhardt, 1825)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Coryphaenoides norvegicus (Nilsson, 1832))
To Dyntaxa 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Coryphaenoides rupestris) 
To FAO Species fact sheets 
To FishBase 
To FishBase (from synonym Macrourus stroemii Reinhardt, 1825)
To FishBase (from synonym Coryphaena rupestris (Gunnerus, 1765))
To FishBase (from synonym Lepidoleprus norvegicus Nilsson, 1832)
To FishBase (from synonym Coryphaenoides norvegicus (Nilsson, 1832))
To FishBase (from synonym Macrurus rupestris (Gunnerus, 1765))
To FishBase (from synonym Ledipoleprus norvegicus Nilsson, 1832)
To FishBase (from synonym Macrurus norvegicus (Nilsson, 1832))
To FishBase images (Coryphaenoides rupestris, Canada, by Garazo Fabregat, A.) 
To FishSounds 
To GenBank (44681 nucleotides; 38890 proteins) 
To IUCN Red List (Critically Endangered) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (Macrurus rupestris P14055 illustration) 
To PESI 
To PESI (from synonym Coryphaenoides (Coryphaenoides) rupestris Gunnerus, 1765)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
To FishBase images (<i>Coryphaenoides rupestris</i>, Canada, by Garazo Fabregat, A.)
To FishBase images (Coryphaenoides rupestris, Canada, by Garazo Fabregat, A.)
Hosted externally
Unreviewed
Coryphaenoides rupestris
Coryphaenoides rupestris
To NMNH Extant Collection (Macrurus rupestris P14055 illustration)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Macrurus rupestris P14055 illustration)
Hosted externally