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Species in the genus Lophius: [ 19 ] records

aculeatus, Lophius Walbaum [J. J.] 1792:496 [Petri Artedi sueci genera piscium Part 3; ref. 4572] Cornwall, England. No types known. •Synonym of Lophius piscatorius Linnaeus 1758 -- (P. Parenti, pers. comm.). Nomen Oblitum. Current status: Synonym of Lophius piscatorius Linnaeus 1758. Lophiidae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

americanus, Lophius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:380 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Northwestern Atlantic. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-4653. Type catalog: Pietsch et al. 1987:136 [ref. 6339]. •Valid as Lophius americanus Valenciennes 1837 -- (Herrera 1896:71 [ref. 39336], Smith 1986:400 [ref. 22186], Robins & Ray 1986:86 [ref. 23100], Scott & Scott 1988:235 [ref. 25518], McAllister 1990:228 [ref. 14674], Murdy et al. 1997:109 [ref. 23144], Caruso in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:264 [ref. 26158], Everly 2002:393 [ref. 26185], Caruso 2003:1046 [ref. 27013], Moore et al. 2003:213 [ref. 27076], Nelson et al. 2004:95 [ref. 27807], Page et al. 2013:97 [ref. 32708], Afonso et al. 2016:38, 187 [ref. 36199], Simian et al. 2022:375 [ref. 40776]). Current status: Valid as Lophius americanus Valenciennes 1837. Lophiidae. Distribution: Northwestern Atlantic. Habitat: marine.

barbatus, Lophius Montin [L.] 1779:187, 195, Pl. 7 (fig. 1) [Kongliga Vetenskaps-Academiens Handlingar, Stockholm v. 40 (for 1779); ref. 17787] No types known. Lophiidae. Habitat: marine.

budegassa, Lophius Spinola [M.] 1807:376 [Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris v. 10; ref. 18741] Gulf of Genoa, Italy, Mediterranean Sea. No types known. Neotype designated by Fricke 1999:30 [ref. 24101], but withdrawn in Fricke 2000:639 [ref. 24537]. Species epithet misspelled budecassa by Cuvier 1831:184 [ref. 30376]. •Valid as Lophius budegassa Spinola 1807 -- (Monod & Le Danois 1973:660 [ref. 7223], Caruso in Whitehead et al. 1986:1362 [ref. 13677], Caruso 1990:479 [ref. 15499], Leslie & Grant 1991:787 [ref. 19769], Heemstra in Smith & Heemstra 1995:ix [ref. 21953], Fricke 1999:30 [ref. 24101], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:55 [ref. 26753], Falcón et al. 2003:144 [ref. 39343], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:120 [ref. 28072], Golani 2005:27 [ref. 37112], Fricke et al. 2007:66 [ref. 29533], Vasil'eva 2007:58 [ref. 30517], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:32 [ref. 36649], Parin et al. 2014:184 [ref. 33547], Goren & Galil 2015:513 [ref. 33910], Caruso 2016:2048 [ref. 34596], Martins & Carneiro 2018:102 [ref. 36550], Artüz & Fricke 2019:554 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:212 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:94 [ref. 36864], Bariche & Fricke 2020:49 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:34 [ref. 37519], Bañón & Maño 2021:62 [ref. 38883], Golani 2021:29 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:62 [ref. 39014], Fermon et al. 2022:300 [ref. 39448] with question). Current status: Valid as Lophius budegassa Spinola 1807. Lophiidae. Distribution: Western Baltic Sea; North Sea; Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea; eastern Atlantic: British Isles south to Senegal, including Azores (Portugal). Habitat: brackish, marine.

cornubicus, Lophius Shaw [G.] 1804:381 [General zoology or systematic natural history; ref. 4015] Mount's Bay, Cornwall, UK. No types known. Based on literature sources. Lophiidae. Habitat: marine.

digitatus, Lophius Bonnaterre [J. P.] (ex Ferguson) 1788:15 [Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature... Ichthyologie; ref. 4940] King Road, near Bristol, United Kingdom. No types known. Based on Ferguson 1763:170, Pl. 13 [ref. 30226]. •Valid as Lophius piscatorius Linnaeus 1758. Current status: Synonym of Lophius piscatorius Linnaeus 1758. Lophiidae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

europaeus, Lophius Shaw [G.] 1804:379, Pl. 161 [General zoology or systematic natural history; ref. 4015] European Seas. Based on Lophius piscatorius Linnaeus 1758 and other literature sources. •Synonym of Lophius piscatorius Linnaeus 1758. Current status: Synonym of Lophius piscatorius Linnaeus 1758. Lophiidae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

eurypterus, Lophius Düben [M. W. von] 1845:111 [Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens förhandlingar, Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademien. v. 1 (1844); ref. 17421] Norway. Also appeared in Düben & Koren 1846:11 [ref. 21662] and in Düben & Koren 1846:63, Pl. 3 (figs. 1-3) [ref. 17420]. •Synonym of Lophius piscatorius Linnaeus 1758 -- (Monod & Le Danois 1973:659 [ref. 7223]). Current status: Synonym of Lophius piscatorius Linnaeus 1758. Lophiidae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

fergusonis, Lophius Walbaum [J. J.] (ex Ferguson) 1792:496 [Petri Artedi sueci genera piscium Part 3; ref. 4572] King Road, near Bristol, United Kingdom. No types known. Based on Ferguson 1763:170, Pl. 13 [ref. 30226]. Misspelled ferguson by Lacepède in Anonymous 1798:681 [ref. 24107]. •Synonym of Lophius piscatorius Linnaeus 1758 -- (P. Parenti, pers. comm.). Current status: Synonym of Lophius piscatorius Linnaeus 1758. Lophiidae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

gadicensis, Lophius Cabrera y Corro [A.], Pérez [L.] & Hänseler [F.] 1817 [Lista de los peces del mar de Andalucía; ref. 17319] Western Andalusia, near Cádiz, Spain, eastern Atlantic. Name only, not available. Possibly unpublished (see Monod 1973:657 [ref. 7193]). See also Lophius gadicensis Cabrera y Corro, Pérez & Hänseler in Machado 1857:24 [ref. 17320]. Species identity from vernacular name 'rape'. •In the synonymy of Halobatrachus didactylus (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Monod 1973:657 [ref. 7193]). •In the synonymy of Lophius piscatorius Linnaeus 1758. Nomen Nudum. Current status: Synonym of Lophius piscatorius Linnaeus 1758. Lophiidae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

gadicensis, Lophius Cabrera y Corro [A.], Pérez [L.] & Hänseler [F.] in Machado 1857:24 [Catálogo de los peces que habitán ó frecuentan las costas de Cadiz y Huelva con inclusion de los del Rio Guadalquivir.; ref. 17320] Western Andalusia, near Cádiz, Spain, eastern Atlantic. Name only; not available. Name from Cabrera y Corro, Pérez & Hänseler 1817:10 [ref. 17319]. Also appeared in Graells 1887:184 [ref. 30438]. •In the synonymy of Lophius piscatorius Linnaeus 1758. Nomen Nudum. Current status: Synonym of Lophius piscatorius Linnaeus 1758. Lophiidae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

gastrophysus, Lophius Miranda Ribeiro [A. de] 1915:Lophiidae p. 2, Fig. on p. 4 and pl. opp. p. 2 [Arquivos do Museu Nacional de Rio de Janeiro v. 17; ref. 3711] Costa do Estago da Guanabara, Brazil. Lectotype: MNRJ 1608A. Paralectotypes: MNRJ 1608 (1 of 2), 1712 (2). Type catalog: Miranda Ribeiro 1955:399 [ref. 12732], Miranda Ribeiro 1962:9 [ref. 22042]. On p. 578 when continuously paginated. Lectotype selected by Miranda Ribeiro 1953:399 [ref. 12732] [but specimen perhaps not isolated]. •Valid as Lophius gastrophysus Miranda Ribeiro 1915 -- (Robins & Ray 1986:86 [ref. 23100], Scott & Scott 1988:236 [ref. 25518], Matsuura & Yoneda 1987:360 [ref. 22510], Boschung 1992:78 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:349 [ref. 23827], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:832 [ref. 23897], Caruso 2003:1047 [ref. 27013], Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:64 [ref. 27192], Moore et al. 2003:213 [ref. 27076], Nelson et al. 2004:95 [ref. 27807], Page et al. 2013:97 [ref. 32708], Lins Oliveira et al. 2015:119 [ref. 37485], Nión et al. 2016:41 [ref. 35565], Klautau et al. 2020:9 [ref. 37903], Carvalho-Filho 2023:83 [ref. 40480], Hoff et al. 2023:7 [ref. 40463]). Current status: Valid as Lophius gastrophysus Miranda Ribeiro 1915. Lophiidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: North Carolina (U.S.A.) south to Argentina. Habitat: marine.

laticephalus, Lophiomus Tanaka [S.] 1918:227 [Dobutsugaku Zasshi = Zoological Magazine Tokyo v. 30 (no. 356); ref. 17357] Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. Holotype (unique): ZUMT 8337 (lost). •Synonym of Lophius litulon (Jordan 1902) -- (Caruso 1983:23 [ref. 5168], Lindberg et al. 1997:208 [ref. 23547]). Current status: Synonym of Lophius litulon (Jordan 1902). Lophiidae. Habitat: marine.

litulon, Lophiomus Jordan [D. S.] 1902:364, Fig. 1 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 24 (no. 1261); ref. 14883] Tokyo, Japan. Holotype: CAS-SU 4701. Paratypes: CAS-SU 7749 (2). Type catalog: Böhlke 1953:147 [ref. 12291]. •Valid as Lophius litulon (Jordan 1902) -- (Caruso 1983:23 [ref. 5168], Sheiko 1983:19 [ref. 37041], Nakabo in Masuda et al. 1984:102 [ref. 6441], Okamura in Okamura & Kitajima 1984:271, 378 [ref. 8057], Cheng & Zhou 1997:496 [ref. 26385] dated 1912, Lindberg et al. 1997:208 [ref. 23547], Sokolovskaya et al. 1998:8 [ref. 24670], Nakabo 2000:452 [ref. 25086], Caruso in Randall & Lim 2000:597 [ref. 25122], Youn et al. 2000:254 [ref. 25179], Shinohara et al. 2001:309 [ref. 25995], Wang et al. 2001:343 [ref. 26566] dated 1912, Nakabo 2002:452 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:213, 541 [ref. 26218], Kharin & Cheblukov 2005:564 [ref. 28367], Shinohara et al. 2005:419 [ref. 28370], Ho & Shao 2007:21 [ref. 29146], Shinohara et al. 2011:41 [ref. 31715], Mukhametov & Orlov 2011:56 [ref. 32453], Shinohara et al. 2014:243 [ref. 33330], Parin et al. 2014:184 [ref. 33547], Motomura et al. 2015:16 [ref. 34709], Kim et al. 2020:75 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:31 [ref. 37637], Ho & Lin 2022:144 [ref. 39632]). Current status: Valid as Lophius litulon (Jordan 1902). Lophiidae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: Sea of Okhotsk, Sea of Japan, Korea, northern China, northeastern Taiwan. Habitat: marine.

parvipinnis, Lophius Cuvier [G.] 1829:251 [Le Règne Animal (Edition 2) v. 2; ref. 995] European seas. MNHN (not found). Type catalog: Pietsch et al. 1987:148 [ref. 6339]. •Synonym of Lophius budegassa Spinola 1807 -- (Monod & Le Danois 1973:660 [ref. 7223], Caruso 1990:479 [ref. 15499]). Current status: Synonym of Lophius budegassa Spinola 1807. Lophiidae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

piscatorius, Lophius Linnaeus [C.] 1758:236 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Northeastern Atlantic [original: "in Oceano Europæo"]; localities include Bordeaux, France, Bay of Biscay; Marseille and Montpellier, France; Genoa, Rome, Naples and Venice, Italy; Lesbos Island, Greece; Syria. Syntypes: NRM 4553 (1). Type catalog: Fernholm & Wheeler 1983:228 [ref. 20707]. Lectotype or neotype fixation needed. Originally based on multiple species and at least 7 pre-Linnaean sources including Artedi 1738:63 [ref. 30578] and Artedi 1738:87 [ref. 30349] as Lophius ore cirroso; Rondelet 1554:363 [ref. 30354] as Rana piscatr(ix), Salviani 1558:140, Pl. (p. 139) [ref. 30229] as Rana piscatr(ix), Jonston 1649:37, Pl. 11 (fig. 8) [ref. 30579] as Rana marina sive piscatrix, Charleton 1668:130, 201 [ref. 30580] as Rana piscatrix, Willughby 1686:85 [ref. 30164] and Ray 1713:29 [ref. 30231] as Rana piscatrix. •Valid as Lophius piscatorius Linnaeus 1758 -- (Monod & Le Danois 1973:659 [ref. 7223], Caruso in Whitehead et al. 1986:1363 [ref. 13677], Santos et al. 1997:62 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:125 [ref. 24952], Porteiro et al. 1999:41 [ref. 24203], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:55 [ref. 26753], Golani 2005:27 [ref. 37112], Fricke 2007:28 [ref. 30577], Fricke et al. 2007:66 [ref. 29533], Vasil'eva 2007:58 [ref. 30517], Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:174 [ref. 31251], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:32 [ref. 36649], Møller et al. 2010:42 [ref. 31169], Mecklenburg et al. 2011:121 [ref. 31212], Parin et al. 2014:185 [ref. 33547], Bañón et al. 2016:318 [ref. 34397], Caruso 2016:2049 [ref. 34596], Mecklenburg et al. 2018:163 [ref. 36370], Martins & Carneiro 2018:103 [ref. 36550], Artüz & Fricke 2019:554 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:212 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:94 [ref. 36864], Bariche & Fricke 2020:50 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:34 [ref. 37519], Abliazov et al. 2021:8 [ref. 38576], Bañón & Maño 2021:62 [ref. 38883], Golani 2021:29 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:62 [ref. 39014], Fermon et al. 2022:300 [ref. 39448] with question). Current status: Valid as Lophius piscatorius Linnaeus 1758. Lophiidae. Distribution: North Atlantic: Greenland; Baltic Sea; North Sea; Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea; eastern Atlantic: Barents Sea and Iceland south to Mauritania, including Azores (Portugal). Habitat: brackish, marine.

upsicephalus, Lophius Smith [A.] 1841:no pagination, Pl. 9 [Illustrations of the zoology of South Africa v. 4; ref. 4035] Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Holotype: BMNH 1845.7.3.183. •Valid as Lophius upsicephalus Smith 1841 -- (Caruso 1986:365 [ref. 6290], Caruso 2016:2046 [ref. 34596]). •Synonym of Lophius vomerinus Valenciennes 1837 -- (Leslie & Grant 1991:787 [ref. 19769]). Current status: Synonym of Lophius vomerinus Valenciennes 1837. Lophiidae. Habitat: marine.

vaillanti, Lophius Regan [C. T.] 1903:285 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7) v. 11 (no. 63) (art. 34); ref. 3616] Cape Verde Islands, depth 460-760 meters. Lectotype: BMNH 1890.6.16.12. Paralectotypes: MNHN 1887-0220 to 0221 (2), 1887-0223 (1, poor condition), 1887-0224 (1). Type catalog: Pietsch et al. 1987:136 [ref. 6339]. Lectotype selected by Caruso 1983:26 [ref. 5168]. •Synonym of Lophius piscatorius Linnaeus 1758 -- (Monod & Le Danois 1973:660 [ref. 7223], Santos et al. 1997:62 [ref. 23531]). •Valid as Lophius vaillanti Regan 1903 -- (Caruso 1990:480 [ref. 15499], Caruso 2016:2046 [ref. 34596], Reiner 2019:122 [ref. 38139], Fermon et al. 2022:300 [ref. 39448]). Current status: Valid as Lophius vaillanti Regan 1903. Lophiidae. Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Mauritania south to Namibia, including São Tomé and Principe. Habitat: brackish, marine.

vomerinus, Lophius Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:381 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-8609. Type catalog: Pietsch et al. 1987:136 [ref. 6339]. •Valid as Lophius vomerinus Valenciennes 1837 -- (Caruso 1986:365 [ref. 6290], Leslie & Grant 1991:787 [ref. 19769], Bianchi & Carpenter in Bianchi et al. 1993:146 [ref. 25472], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:120 [ref. 28072], Fricke et al. 2018:87 [ref. 35805], Caruso 2022:286 [ref. 39709]). Current status: Valid as Lophius vomerinus Valenciennes 1837. Lophiidae. Distribution: Southeastern Atlantic, southwestern Indian Ocean: Namibia south to Cape of Good Hope (South Africa), then north to KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) and Madagascar. Habitat: marine.