WoRMS taxon details
Malthopsis lutea Alcock, 1891
277543 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:277543)
accepted
Species
Malthopsis luteus Alcock, 1891 · unaccepted (misspelling)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Alcock, A. W. (1891). Class Pisces. In: II.--Natural history notes from H. M. Indian marine survey steamer `Investigator,' Commander R. F. Hoskyn, R. N., commanding.--Series II., No. 1. On the results of deep-sea dredging during the season 1890-91. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 6).</em> v. 8 (no. 43/44): 16-34 (1 July); 119-138 (1 Aug.), Pls. 7-8. [Authorship of article beginning on p. 16 and 119 is Wood-Mason & Alcock; authorship of Pisces (p. 19 et seq.) is Alcock. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Malthopsis lutea Alcock, 1891. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=277543 on 2025-04-17
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Nomenclature
original description
Alcock, A. W. (1891). Class Pisces. In: II.--Natural history notes from H. M. Indian marine survey steamer `Investigator,' Commander R. F. Hoskyn, R. N., commanding.--Series II., No. 1. On the results of deep-sea dredging during the season 1890-91. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 6).</em> v. 8 (no. 43/44): 16-34 (1 July); 119-138 (1 Aug.), Pls. 7-8. [Authorship of article beginning on p. 16 and 119 is Wood-Mason & Alcock; authorship of Pisces (p. 19 et seq.) is Alcock. [details]
original description (of Malthopsis luteus Alcock, 1891) Wood-Mason, J. & Alcock, A. (1891). Natural history notes from H.M. Indian marine survey steamer 'Investigator', Commander R.F. Hoskyn, R.N., commanding. Series II, No. 1. On the results of deep-sea dredging during the season 1890-1891. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (series 6) 8 (43): 16-34, pl. 7-8; 8 (44): 119-138; 8 (46): 268-286; 8 (47): 353-362; 8 (48): 427-452, pl. 17., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19244692 [details]
original description (of Malthopsis luteus Alcock, 1891) Wood-Mason, J. & Alcock, A. (1891). Natural history notes from H.M. Indian marine survey steamer 'Investigator', Commander R.F. Hoskyn, R.N., commanding. Series II, No. 1. On the results of deep-sea dredging during the season 1890-1891. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (series 6) 8 (43): 16-34, pl. 7-8; 8 (44): 119-138; 8 (46): 268-286; 8 (47): 353-362; 8 (48): 427-452, pl. 17., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19244692 [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]
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications) (from synonym Malthopsis luteus Alcock, 1891)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Malthopsis lutea)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Malthopsis luteus Alcock, 1891)
To FishBase images (Malthopsis lutea, by Ho, H.-C.)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Dibranchus P10219 preliminary sketch)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications) (from synonym Malthopsis luteus Alcock, 1891)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Malthopsis lutea)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Malthopsis luteus Alcock, 1891)
To FishBase images (Malthopsis lutea, by Ho, H.-C.)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Dibranchus P10219 preliminary sketch)
To ITIS
