WoRMS taxon details

Coryphaenoides rupestris Gunnerus, 1765

158960  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158960)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Gunnerus, J. E. (1765). Efterretning om Berglaxen, en rar Norsk fisk, som kunde kaldes: Coryphaenoides rupestris. <em>Der Trondhiemske Selskabs Skrifter.</em> v. 3: 50-58, Pl. 3. [German translation appeared in Der Drontheimischen Gesellschaft Schriften v. 3, 1767: 43-50.]. [details]   
Distribution Western North Atlantic from Davis Strait, along the coast of Labrador, off Newfoundland, and the Grand Bank southward to...  
Distribution Western North Atlantic from Davis Strait, along the coast of Labrador, off Newfoundland, and the Grand Bank southward to Cape Hatteras, NC. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Coryphaenoides rupestris Gunnerus, 1765. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158960 on 2024-03-28
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2005-05-27 07:39:43Z
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2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
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original description Gunnerus, J. E. (1765). Efterretning om Berglaxen, en rar Norsk fisk, som kunde kaldes: Coryphaenoides rupestris. <em>Der Trondhiemske Selskabs Skrifter.</em> v. 3: 50-58, Pl. 3. [German translation appeared in Der Drontheimischen Gesellschaft Schriften v. 3, 1767: 43-50.]. [details]   

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 (RAS) Australian Antarctic Data Centre. , available online at https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/ [details]   

basis of record Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. <em>Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> No. 219. 731 pp. [details]   

additional source Welshman, D.; Kohler, S; Black, J.; and L. Van Guelpen. (2003). An atlas of distributions of Canadian Atlantic fishes. , available online at http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/FishAtlas/default.htm [details]   

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2023). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2023)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]   

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]  OpenAccess publication 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Diet Feeds mainly on shrimps, amphipods, cephalopods and lantern fishes  [details]

Distribution Western North Atlantic from Davis Strait, along the coast of Labrador, off Newfoundland, and the Grand Bank southward to Cape Hatteras, NC. [details]

Habitat nektonic [details]

Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]

Habitat Found at depths of 400- 1200 m. [details]

Reproduction External fertilization.Spawns in late autumn.Spawning grounds assumed to be at depths greater than 850 m; not viviparous  [details]
LanguageName 
Danish skolæst  [details]
Dutch rondneusgrenadiervis  [details]
English roundnose grenadierroundhead rat-tailrock grenadier  [details]
French grenadier de roche  [details]
German Rundnasen-Grenadier  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål skolest  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk skolest  [details]
Swedish storfjällig skolästskoläst  [details]
Welsh cynffon llygoden  [details]