Deep-Sea taxon details
Laemonema melanurum Goode & Bean, 1896
158986 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158986)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Goode, G.B.; Bean, T.H. (1896). Oceanic Ichthyology, a treatise on the deep-sea and pelagic fishes of the world, based chiefly upon the collections made by the steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk in the northwestern Atlantic, with an atlas containing 417 figures. <em>Spec. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus.</em> Text: 2: i-xxxv + 1-26 + 1-553. Atlas: i-xxiii, 1-26. Pls. 123., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.48521 [details] 
Distribution Northwestern Atlantic
Distribution Northwestern Atlantic [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Laemonema melanurum Goode & Bean, 1896. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158986 on 2026-09-18
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Laemonema melanurum Goode & Bean, 1896. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158986 on 2026-09-18
original description
Goode, G.B.; Bean, T.H. (1896). Oceanic Ichthyology, a treatise on the deep-sea and pelagic fishes of the world, based chiefly upon the collections made by the steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk in the northwestern Atlantic, with an atlas containing 417 figures. <em>Spec. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus.</em> Text: 2: i-xxxv + 1-26 + 1-553. Atlas: i-xxiii, 1-26. Pls. 123., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.48521 [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 Meléndez, C. R.; Markle, D. F. (1997). Phylogeny and zoogeography of <i>Laemonema</i> and <i>Guttigadus</i> (Pisces: Gadiformes: Moridae). <em>Bull. Mar. Sci.</em> 61(3): 593-670. [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., 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]
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 Meléndez, C. R.; Markle, D. F. (1997). Phylogeny and zoogeography of <i>Laemonema</i> and <i>Guttigadus</i> (Pisces: Gadiformes: Moridae). <em>Bull. Mar. Sci.</em> 61(3): 593-670. [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., 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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Distribution Northwestern Atlantic [details]Habitat nektonic [details]
Habitat depth range 452 - 644 m [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications)
To FishBase
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Laemonema melanura P14557 illustration)
To ITIS
To FishBase
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Laemonema melanura P14557 illustration)
To ITIS
Unreviewed
Hosted externally
