Deep-Sea taxon details
Malacocephalus occidentalis Goode & Bean, 1885
158741 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158741)
accepted
Species
Ventrifossa occidentalis (Goode & Bean, 1885) · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Goode, G. B. ; Bean, T. H. (1885). Descriptions of new fishes obtained by the United States Fish Commission mainly from deep water off the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> v. 8 (no. 543): 589-605. [details]
Distribution Atlantic Ocean: in tropical and warm-temperate waters as far north as Newfoundland
Distribution Atlantic Ocean: in tropical and warm-temperate waters as far north as Newfoundland [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Malacocephalus occidentalis Goode & Bean, 1885. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158741 on 2026-01-23
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Malacocephalus occidentalis Goode & Bean, 1885. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158741 on 2026-01-23
original description
Goode, G. B. ; Bean, T. H. (1885). Descriptions of new fishes obtained by the United States Fish Commission mainly from deep water off the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> v. 8 (no. 543): 589-605. [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas. 2002. November, 2002. [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]
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]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas. 2002. November, 2002. [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]
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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Diet Feeds on pelagic crustaceans [details]Distribution Atlantic Ocean: in tropical and warm-temperate waters as far north as Newfoundland [details]
Habitat nektonic [details]
Habitat Inhabits warm to temperate waters on the continental slope. [details]
Importance Social- Minor Commercial, fishery [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | western softhead grenadierAmerican straptail grenedier | [details] |
| French | queue-de-rat d’Amérique | [details] |
| Spanish | granadero carapacho | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Ventrifossa occidentalis (Goode & Bean, 1885))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Malacocephalus occidentalis)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Ventrifossa occidentalis (Goode & Bean, 1885))
To FishSounds
To GenBank (95837 nucleotides; 17 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Malacocephalus occidentalis USNM 405129 photograph lateral view)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Ventrifossa occidentalis (Goode & Bean, 1885))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Malacocephalus occidentalis)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Ventrifossa occidentalis (Goode & Bean, 1885))
To FishSounds
To GenBank (95837 nucleotides; 17 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Malacocephalus occidentalis USNM 405129 photograph lateral view)
To ITIS
Unreviewed
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