North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Lota Oken, 1817

AphiaID

154387 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:154387)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Lotidae Bonaparte, 1835

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Species Lota lota (Linnaeus, 1758)

Environment

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

Original description

Oken, L. (1817). V. Kl. Fische. Isis (Oken). 8(148): 1779-1782. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Lota Oken, 1817. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=154387 on 2026-10-12

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Lota Oken, 1817. Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=154387 on 2026-10-12

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-04-18 08:19:08Z

created

Appeltans, Ward

2013-03-11 13:25:43Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

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original description Oken, L. (1817). V. Kl. Fische. Isis (Oken). 8(148): 1779-1782. [details]

taxonomy source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

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