WoRMS taxon details
Ventrifossa mucocephalus Marshall, 1973
275600 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:275600)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Marshall, N. B. (1973). Fishes of the Western North Atlantic. Genus Malacocephalus Günther 1862. <em>Memoirs of the Sears Foundation of Marine Research.</em> Mem. 1 (pt 6): 650-662. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Ventrifossa mucocephalus Marshall, 1973. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=275600 on 2025-04-20
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Nomenclature
original description
Marshall, N. B. (1973). Fishes of the Western North Atlantic. Genus Malacocephalus Günther 1862. <em>Memoirs of the Sears Foundation of Marine Research.</em> Mem. 1 (pt 6): 650-662. [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 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]
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 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
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ventrifossa mucocephalus)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Ventrifossa mucocephalus, Brazil, by Fischer, L.G.)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 13 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Ventrifossa mucocephalus USNM 206498 photograph)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ventrifossa mucocephalus)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Ventrifossa mucocephalus, Brazil, by Fischer, L.G.)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 13 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Ventrifossa mucocephalus USNM 206498 photograph)
To ITIS
