Deep-Sea taxon details
Phycis chesteri Goode & Bean, 1878
158988 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158988)
accepted
Species
Urophycis chesteri (Goode & Bean, 1878) · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Goode, G. B.; Bean, T. H. (1878-1879). Descriptions of two gadoid fishes Phycis chesteri and Haloporphyrus viola, from the deep-sea fauna of the northwestern Atlantic. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> v. 1 (no. 40): 256-260. [details] 
Distribution Occurs from the mid-Labrador Shelf to the southern edge of the Grand Bank, Flemish Cap, Laurentian Channel in the Gulf of...
Distribution Occurs from the mid-Labrador Shelf to the southern edge of the Grand Bank, Flemish Cap, Laurentian Channel in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, along the edges of the Scotian Shelf southward along the edge of the continental slope in United States waters to the Straits of Florida. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Phycis chesteri Goode & Bean, 1878. 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=158988 on 2026-09-10
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Phycis chesteri Goode & Bean, 1878. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158988 on 2026-09-10
original description
Goode, G. B.; Bean, T. H. (1878-1879). Descriptions of two gadoid fishes Phycis chesteri and Haloporphyrus viola, from the deep-sea fauna of the northwestern Atlantic. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> v. 1 (no. 40): 256-260. [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 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 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 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]
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 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 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 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]
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 crustaceans, particularly euphausiids, shrimps and amphipods. [details]Distribution Occurs from the mid-Labrador Shelf to the southern edge of the Grand Bank, Flemish Cap, Laurentian Channel in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, along the edges of the Scotian Shelf southward along the edge of the continental slope in United States waters to the Straits of Florida. [details]
Habitat benthic [details]
Habitat deepwater species; found at depths of 160- 1290 m [details]
Reproduction spawning occurs from September to April of Virgnia [details]
To Barcode of Life (21 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) (from synonym Urophycis chesteri (Goode & Bean, 1878))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (29 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Phycis chesteri)
To FishBase (from synonym Urophycis chesteri (Goode & Bean, 1878))
To FishBase
To GenBank (28 nucleotides; 35 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Urophycis chesteri P04445 illustration)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) (from synonym Urophycis chesteri (Goode & Bean, 1878))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (29 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Phycis chesteri)
To FishBase (from synonym Urophycis chesteri (Goode & Bean, 1878))
To FishBase
To GenBank (28 nucleotides; 35 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Urophycis chesteri P04445 illustration)
To ITIS
Unreviewed
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