WoRMS taxon details
Polymixia lowei Günther, 1859
158923 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158923)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Günther, A. (1859). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. Gasterosteidae, Berycidae, Percidae, Aphredoderidae, Pristipomatidae, Mullidae, Sparidae. <em>London.</em> v. 1: i-xxxi + 1-524. [details]
Distribution Western Atlantic: Grand Bank and northern Gulf of Mexico to the Antilles and French Guiana
Distribution Western Atlantic: Grand Bank and northern Gulf of Mexico to the Antilles and French Guiana [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Polymixia lowei Günther, 1859. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158923 on 2025-04-06
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Nomenclature
original description
Günther, A. (1859). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. Gasterosteidae, Berycidae, Percidae, Aphredoderidae, Pristipomatidae, Mullidae, Sparidae. <em>London.</em> v. 1: i-xxxi + 1-524. [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]
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]
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] 
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 (Bermuda) Smith-Vaniz, W. F.; Collette, B. B.; Luckhurst, B. E (1999). Fishes of Bermuda: History, zoogeography, annotated checklist, and identification keys (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists - Special Publication No.4) . ASIH, 424 pp. [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]
context source (Bermuda) Smith-Vaniz, W. F.; Collette, B. B.; Luckhurst, B. E (1999). Fishes of Bermuda: History, zoogeography, annotated checklist, and identification keys (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists - Special Publication No.4) . ASIH, 424 pp. [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]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Distribution Western Atlantic: Grand Bank and northern Gulf of Mexico to the Antilles and French Guiana [details]Habitat benthic [details]
Habitat Found on soft bottoms. [details]
Importance Social- commercial, minor fishery [details]
To Barcode of Life (43 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Polymixia lowei)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Polymixia lowei, by NOAA\NMFS\Mississippi Laboratory)
To GenBank (119 nucleotides; 126 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Polymixia lowei Günther, 1859; HOLOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:2584483)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Polymixia lowei USNM 185401 photograph lateral view)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Polymixia lowei)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Polymixia lowei, by NOAA\NMFS\Mississippi Laboratory)
To GenBank (119 nucleotides; 126 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Polymixia lowei Günther, 1859; HOLOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:2584483)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Polymixia lowei USNM 185401 photograph lateral view)
To ITIS
