MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Alepocephalus australis Barnard, 1923

Deep-Sea taxon details

Alepocephalus australis Barnard, 1923

To FishBase images (<i>Alepocephalus australis</i>, by Bañón Díaz, R.)

To FishBase images (Alepocephalus australis, by Bañón Díaz, R.)

AphiaID

217603 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217603)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Alepocephalus Risso, 1820

Original name

Alepocephalus australis Barnard, 1923

Synonymised names

Alepocephalus barnardi Norman, 1930 · unaccepted

Environment

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

Original description

Barnard, K. H. (1923). Diagnoses of new species of marine fishes from South African waters. Annals of the South African Museum. 13 (pt 8, no. 14): 439-445. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Alepocephalus australis Barnard, 1923. 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=217603 on 2025-05-31

Thematic species database citation

Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Alepocephalus australis Barnard, 1923. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217603 on 2025-05-31

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2002-01-02 17:49:40Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2008-01-15 17:27:08Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

[taxonomic tree]

original description Barnard, K. H. (1923). Diagnoses of new species of marine fishes from South African waters. Annals of the South African Museum. 13 (pt 8, no. 14): 439-445. [details]

original description (of Alepocephalus barnardi Norman, 1930) Norman, J. R. (1930). Oceanic fishes and flatfishes collected in 1925-1927. Discovery Reports. 2: 261-369, Pl. 2. [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 King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 431-554. [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]

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]