WoRMS taxon details
Holtbyrnia macrops Maul, 1957
126740 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126740)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Maul, G. E. (1957). Further additions to the previously revised family Searsidae. <em>Boletim do Museu Municipal do Funchal.</em> No. 10 (art. 25): 5-21. [details]
Distribution southern Iceland and Bay of Biscay to South Africa
Distribution southern Iceland and Bay of Biscay to South Africa [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Holtbyrnia macrops Maul, 1957. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126740 on 2025-03-29
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Nomenclature
original description
Maul, G. E. (1957). Further additions to the previously revised family Searsidae. <em>Boletim do Museu Municipal do Funchal.</em> No. 10 (art. 25): 5-21. [details]
basis of record van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [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
Distribution southern Iceland and Bay of Biscay to South Africa [details]Habitat nektonic [details]
Habitat Bathypelagic to benthopelagic in the northern parts of range, occurring from 300-1,000 m in the daytime, but as shallow as 100-120 m at night [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | bigeye searsid | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Holtbyrnia macrops)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Holtbyrnia macrops, Canada, by Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To PESI
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Holtbyrnia macrops)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Holtbyrnia macrops, Canada, by Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To PESI
To ITIS
