World Register of Deep-Sea species - Chaunax tosaensis Okamura & Oryuu, 1984

Deep-Sea name details

Chaunax tosaensis Okamura & Oryuu, 1984

AphiaID

272554 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:272554)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (synonym)

Accepted name

Chaunax penicillatus McCulloch, 1915

Rank

Species

Parent

Chaunax Lowe, 1846

Original name

Chaunax tosaensis Okamura & Oryuu, 1984

Environment

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

Original description

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]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Chaunax tosaensis Okamura & Oryuu, 1984. 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=272554 on 2026-09-05

Thematic species database citation

Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Chaunax tosaensis Okamura & Oryuu, 1984. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=272554 on 2026-09-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-15 17:27:08Z

created

Bailly, Nicolas

2017-07-07 06:50:58Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

2017-08-17 13:35:34Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

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original description 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]

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

Unreviewed

Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]

Definitions

Language	Name
Japanese	ハナグロフサアンコウ	[details]

To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To FishBase
To GenBank (15 nucleotides; 19 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To ITIS