WoRMS taxon details
Gigantactis elsmani Bertelsen, Pietsch & Lavenberg, 1981
272559 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:272559)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Bertelsen, E.; Pietsch, T. W.; Lavenberg, R. J. (1981). Ceratioid anglerfishes of the family Gigantactinidae: morphology, systematics, and distribution. <em>Contributions in Science (Los Angeles).</em> 332: 1-74. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Gigantactis elsmani Bertelsen, Pietsch & Lavenberg, 1981. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=272559 on 2025-03-27
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Nomenclature
original description
Bertelsen, E.; Pietsch, T. W.; Lavenberg, R. J. (1981). Ceratioid anglerfishes of the family Gigantactinidae: morphology, systematics, and distribution. <em>Contributions in Science (Los Angeles).</em> 332: 1-74. [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
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
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | Candle whipnose | [details] |
| Japanese | ロウソクモグラアンコウ | [details] |
| Russian | Длиннощуповый удильщик Элсмана | [details] |
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gigantactis elsmani)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Gigantactis elsmani, Chinese Taipei, by Ho, H.-C.)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gigantactis elsmani)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Gigantactis elsmani, Chinese Taipei, by Ho, H.-C.)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
