WoRMS taxon details

Brosme brosme (Ascanius, 1772)

126447  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126447)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Gadus brosme Ascanius, 1772) Ascanius, P. (1767-1805). Icones rerum naturalium, ou figures enluminées d'histoire naturelle du Nord. Copenhagen. 5 parts, 36 pp., 50 pls. Pt. 1 (1867), 22 pp., Pls. 1-10; 2 (1772), 8 pp., Pls. 11-20; 3 (1775), 6 pp., Pls. 21-30; 4 (1777), 6 pp., Pls. 31-40; 5 (1805), 8 pp., Pls. 41-50.
page(s): 7, Pl. 17 [details] OpenAccess publication
Distribution Newfoundland to New Jersey  
Distribution Newfoundland to New Jersey [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Brosme brosme (Ascanius, 1772). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126447 on 2025-04-07
Date
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
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Nomenclature

original description (of Gadus lubb Euphrasen, 1794) Euphrasen, B. A. (1794). Gadus lubb, en ny svensk fisk. Kongliga Vetenskaps-Academiens Handlingar, Stockholm. v. 15 (for 1794): 223-227, Pl. 8.
page(s): 223, Pl. 8 [details] 

original description (of Gadus torsk Bonnaterre, 1788) Bonnaterre, J. P. (1788). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature... Ichthyologie. Panckoucke, Paris. i-lvi + 1-215, Pls. A-B. 1-100., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=Z67NZ0_oObYC&pg=PR1
page(s): 51, Pl. 87 (fig. 362) [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Gadus brosme Ascanius, 1772) Ascanius, P. (1767-1805). Icones rerum naturalium, ou figures enluminées d'histoire naturelle du Nord. Copenhagen. 5 parts, 36 pp., 50 pls. Pt. 1 (1867), 22 pp., Pls. 1-10; 2 (1772), 8 pp., Pls. 11-20; 3 (1775), 6 pp., Pls. 21-30; 4 (1777), 6 pp., Pls. 31-40; 5 (1805), 8 pp., Pls. 41-50.
page(s): 7, Pl. 17 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Blennius torsk Lacepède, 1800) Lacepède, B. G. E. (1800). Histoire naturelle des poissons. v. 2: i-lxiv + 1-632, Pls. 1-20.
page(s): 460, 508 [details] 

original description (of Brosmius flavescens Lesueur, 1819) Lesueur, C.A. (1819). Notice de quelques poissons découverts dans les lacs du Haut-Canada, durant l'été de 1816. Mem. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. 5: 148-161. 2 pls.
page(s): 158, Pl. 16 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Brosmius scotica Swainson, 1839) Swainson, W. (1839). On the natural history and classification of fishes, amphibians, & reptiles, or monocardian animals. Spottiswoode & Co., London. v. 2: i-vi + 1-452. [details] 

original description (of Brosmerus flavesny Lesueur, 1819) Lesueur, C.A. (1819). Notice de quelques poissons découverts dans les lacs du Haut-Canada, durant l'été de 1816. Mem. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. 5: 148-161. 2 pls.
page(s): 158 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Brosmus vulgaris Fleming, 1828) Fleming, J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan. Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18569
page(s): 194 [details] 

basis of record van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details] 

Ecology

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. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] OpenAccess publication

Other

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] 

context source (Bermuda) Smith-Vaniz, W. F.; Collette, B. B.; Luckhurst, B. E (1999). Fishes of Bermuda: History, zoogeography, annotated checklist, and identification keys (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists - Special Publication No.4) . ASIH, 424 pp. [details] 

additional source Scott, W.B., and S.N. Messieh. (1976). Common Canadian Atlantic fishes. Huntsman Marine Laboratory. St. Andrews, N.B. 106 p. [details] 

additional source Ascanius, P. (1767-1805). Icones rerum naturalium, ou figures enluminées d'histoire naturelle du Nord. Copenhagen. 5 parts, 36 pp., 50 pls. Pt. 1 (1867), 22 pp., Pls. 1-10; 2 (1772), 8 pp., Pls. 11-20; 3 (1775), 6 pp., Pls. 21-30; 4 (1777), 6 pp., Pls. 31-40; 5 (1805), 8 pp., Pls. 41-50.
page(s): 7 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Wheeler, A. (1992). A list of the common and scientific names of fishes of the British Isles. J. Fish Biol. 41(Suppl. A): 1-37 (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 7 [details] 

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details] 

 
EMODnet BathymetrySource: EMODnet Bathymetry
Countries
Polygons
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Diet Feeds on crustaceans, shellfishes, starfishes [details]

Distribution Newfoundland to New Jersey [details]

Habitat benthic [details]

Habitat Found to depths of 20- 1000 m over rough, rocky or gravel bottoms. [details]

Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]

Importance Scientific- Highly commercial, gamefish [details]

Predators Seals, thorny skate [details]

Reproduction Spawns in shallow waters [details]
    Definitions

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LanguageName 
Danish brosme  [details]
Dutch lom  [details]
English tusktorskcusk  [details]
French loquettebrosme  [details]
German LumpLumbLimb  [details]
Icelandic keila  [details]
Norwegian lubbbrosme  [details]
Norwegian BokmÃ¥l brosme  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk brosme  [details]
Spanish brosmio  [details]
Swedish lubbbrosme  [details]
Welsh torsg  [details]