RAS taxon details
Coryphaenoides rupestris Gunnerus, 1765
158960 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158960)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Gunnerus, J.E. (1765). Efterretning om Berglaxen, en rar Norsk fisk, som kunde kaldes: Coryphaenoides rupestris. <em>Der Trondhiemske Selskabs Skrifter.</em> v. 3: 50-58, Pl. 3. [German translation appeared in Der Drontheimischen Gesellschaft Schriften v. 3, 1767: 43-50.]. [details] 
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2021). FishBase. Coryphaenoides rupestris Gunnerus, 1765. Accessed through: RAS (Eds.) (2021) Register of Antarctic Species at: http://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158960 on 2026-09-12
RAS (Eds.) (2026). Register of Antarctic Species. Coryphaenoides rupestris Gunnerus, 1765. Accessed at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158960 on 2026-09-12
original description
Gunnerus, J.E. (1765). Efterretning om Berglaxen, en rar Norsk fisk, som kunde kaldes: Coryphaenoides rupestris. <em>Der Trondhiemske Selskabs Skrifter.</em> v. 3: 50-58, Pl. 3. [German translation appeared in Der Drontheimischen Gesellschaft Schriften v. 3, 1767: 43-50.]. [details]
context source (RAS) Australian Antarctic Data Centre. , available online at https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/ [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 (RAS) Australian Antarctic Data Centre. , available online at https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/ [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
To Barcode of Life (9 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (54 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Coryphaenoides rupestris)
To FAO Species fact sheets
To FishBase
To FishSounds
To GenBank (44681 nucleotides; 38890 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Critically Endangered)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Macrurus rupestris P14055 illustration)
To PESI
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (54 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Coryphaenoides rupestris)
To FAO Species fact sheets
To FishBase
To FishSounds
To GenBank (44681 nucleotides; 38890 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Critically Endangered)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Macrurus rupestris P14055 illustration)
To PESI
To ITIS
Unreviewed
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