Deep-Sea taxon details
Chaunax penicillatus McCulloch, 1915
217856 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217856)
accepted
Species
Chaunax tosaensis Okamura & Oryuu, 1984 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
McCulloch, A. R. (1915). Report on some fishes obtained by the F. I. S. "Endeavour" on the coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South and South-Western Australia, Part III. <em>Biological Results Endeavour.</em> v. 3 (pt 3): 97-170, Pls. 13-37. [details]
Description On continental slopes.
Description On continental slopes. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Chaunax penicillatus McCulloch, 1915. 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=217856 on 2026-08-17
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Chaunax penicillatus McCulloch, 1915. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217856 on 2026-08-17
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original description
McCulloch, A. R. (1915). Report on some fishes obtained by the F. I. S. "Endeavour" on the coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South and South-Western Australia, Part III. <em>Biological Results Endeavour.</em> v. 3 (pt 3): 97-170, Pls. 13-37. [details]
original description (of Chaunax tosaensis Okamura & Oryuu, 1984) Okamura, O.; Kitajima, T. (1984). Fishes of the Okinawa Trough and the adjacent waters. Vol. I. The intensive research of unexploited fishery resources on continental slopes. <em>Japan Fisheries Resource Conservation Association, Tokyo.</em> 1-414. [In Japanese and English; various authors.]. [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]
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]
original description (of Chaunax tosaensis Okamura & Oryuu, 1984) Okamura, O.; Kitajima, T. (1984). Fishes of the Okinawa Trough and the adjacent waters. Vol. I. The intensive research of unexploited fishery resources on continental slopes. <em>Japan Fisheries Resource Conservation Association, Tokyo.</em> 1-414. [In Japanese and English; various authors.]. [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]
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
Description On continental slopes. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ハナグロフサアンコウ | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (14 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Chaunax tosaensis Okamura & Oryuu, 1984)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Chaunax penicillatus)
To FishBase (from synonym Chaunax tosaensis Okamura & Oryuu, 1984)
To FishBase
To GenBank (15 nucleotides; 19 proteins) (from synonym Chaunax tosaensis Okamura & Oryuu, 1984)
To GenBank (15 nucleotides; 19 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) (from synonym Chaunax tosaensis Okamura & Oryuu, 1984)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Chaunax tosaensis Okamura & Oryuu, 1984)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Chaunax penicillatus)
To FishBase (from synonym Chaunax tosaensis Okamura & Oryuu, 1984)
To FishBase
To GenBank (15 nucleotides; 19 proteins) (from synonym Chaunax tosaensis Okamura & Oryuu, 1984)
To GenBank (15 nucleotides; 19 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) (from synonym Chaunax tosaensis Okamura & Oryuu, 1984)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
