WoRMS taxon details

Benthosema glaciale (Reinhardt, 1837)

126580  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126580)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Scopelus glacialis Reinhardt, 1837) Reinhardt, J.C.H. (1837). Ichthyologiske bidrag til den Grönlandske fauna. Indledning, indeholdende tillaeg og forandringer i den fabriciske fortegnelse paa Grönlandske hvirveldyr. <em>K. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Naturvid. Math. Afhandl.</em> 7: 83-196. [details] 
Distribution Baffin Bay to northern edge of Gulf Stream  
Distribution Baffin Bay to northern edge of Gulf Stream [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Benthosema glaciale (Reinhardt, 1837). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126580 on 2025-02-22
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original description (of Scopelus parvimanus Günther, 1864) Günther, A. (1864). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Siluridae, Characinidae, Haplochitonidae, Sternoptychidae, Scopelidae, Stomiatidae in the collection of the British Museum. v. 5: i-xxii + 1-455. [details] 

original description (of Scopelus glacialis Reinhardt, 1837) Reinhardt, J.C.H. (1837). Ichthyologiske bidrag til den Grönlandske fauna. Indledning, indeholdende tillaeg og forandringer i den fabriciske fortegnelse paa Grönlandske hvirveldyr. <em>K. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Naturvid. Math. Afhandl.</em> 7: 83-196. [details] 

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) Karnella, C. (1987). Family Myctophidae, lanternfishes In: Biology of midwater fishes of the Bermuda ocean acre, Smithsonian contributions to zoology, number 452. . Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. , (452): 51-168 [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, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [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] 

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] 

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] OpenAccess publication
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Diet Feeds on copepods, euphausiids and copepodites  [details]

Distribution Baffin Bay to northern edge of Gulf Stream [details]

Habitat nektonic [details]

Habitat Epipelagic [details]

Habitat Mesopelagic [details]

Habitat Bathypelagic [details]

Habitat Nyctoepipelagic species, migrates from daytime depth of 375- 800 m to 12- 200 m at night.  [details]

Reproduction Spawns from April- August; open water/ substratum egg scatterers, reported to perish after spawning  [details]
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LanguageName 
Danish isprikfisk  [details]
English glacier lanternfish  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Φανόψαρο των πάγων  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål nordlig lysprikkfisk  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk nordleg lysprikkfisk  [details]
Turkish isildak baligi  [details]