WoRMS taxon details
Bathylagus pacificus Gilbert, 1890
272919 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:272919)
accepted
Species
Bathylagus borealis Gilbert, 1896 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Gilbert, C. H. (1890). A preliminary report on the fishes collected by the steamer Albatross on the Pacific coast of North America during the year 1889, with descriptions of twelve new genera and ninety-two new species. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> v. 13 (no. 797): 49-126. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Bathylagus pacificus Gilbert, 1890. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=272919 on 2025-04-06
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Nomenclature
original description
Gilbert, C. H. (1890). A preliminary report on the fishes collected by the steamer Albatross on the Pacific coast of North America during the year 1889, with descriptions of twelve new genera and ninety-two new species. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> v. 13 (no. 797): 49-126. [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]
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]
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
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | slender blacksmelt | [details] |
| French | garcette élancée | [details] |
| Japanese | ヤセソコイワシ | [details] |
| Russian | Тихоокеанский батилаг | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (9 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Bathylagus borealis Gilbert, 1896)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (25 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Bathylagus pacificus)
To FishBase (from synonym Bathylagus borealis Gilbert, 1896)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Bathylagus pacificus, Russia, by Orlov, A.)
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Bathylagus borealis Gilbert, 1896)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (25 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Bathylagus pacificus)
To FishBase (from synonym Bathylagus borealis Gilbert, 1896)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Bathylagus pacificus, Russia, by Orlov, A.)
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To ITIS
