World Register of Deep-Sea species - Electrona arctica (Lütken, 1892)

Deep-Sea name details

Electrona arctica (Lütken, 1892)

AphiaID

183135 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:183135)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Protomyctophum arcticum (Lütken, 1892)

Rank

Species

Parent

Electrona Goode & Bean, 1896

Original name

Scopelus arcticus Lütken, 1892

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of ) Lütken, C. F. (1892). Korte Bidrag til nordisk Ichthyographi. VIII. Nogle nordiske Laxesild (Scopeliner). <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den Naturhistoriske Forening i Kjøbenhavn, Aaret.</em> 1891: 203-233. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Electrona arctica (Lütken, 1892). 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=183135 on 2026-01-14

Thematic species database citation

Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Electrona arctica (Lütken, 1892). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=183135 on 2026-01-14

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-10-10 16:37:26Z

created

db_admin

2010-02-24 10:06:40Z

changed

Appeltans, Ward

2010-03-17 08:10:12Z

checked

Bailly, Nicolas

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original description (of ) Lütken, C. F. (1892). Korte Bidrag til nordisk Ichthyographi. VIII. Nogle nordiske Laxesild (Scopeliner). <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den Naturhistoriske Forening i Kjøbenhavn, Aaret.</em> 1891: 203-233. [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 BIOCEAN, available online at http://www.ifremer.fr/biocean/ [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]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To FishBase
To ITIS