Melamphaes simus

Taxonavigation: Berycoidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii Subdivisio: Berycimorphaceae Ordo: Beryciformes Subordo: Berycoidei

Familia: Melamphaidae
Genus: Melamphaes
Species: Melamphaes simus

Name

Melamphaes simus Ebeling, 1962

• Holotype: ZMUC P41204.
• Paratypes: BMNH 1930.1.12.977-980 (4); ?MCZ [ex Woods Hole] (1); NHMG 1431 (1); ZMUC P41205-220 (40).

Type locality: South of Canary Islands [eastern Atlantic], 27°19'N, 16°41'W, Dana station D4010, depth about 350 meters (1000 meters wire out) over bottom depth of 3460 meters.

Etymology: .

Vernacular names

English: Ridgehead

References

• Ebeling, A.W. 1962. Melamphaidae I. Systematics and zoogeography of the species in the bathypelagic fish genus Melamphaes Günther. Dana Report, 58: 1–164. Reference page. 
• Kotlyar, A.N. 2016. Revision of the genus Melamphaes (Melamphaidae): 6. oligo-raker species: M. papavereus, M. simus, M. hubbsi. Voprosy Ikhtiologii 56(3): 251–262. / Journal of Ichthyology 56(3): 325–335. DOI: 10.1134/S0032945216030061 Reference page. 

Links

• simus Genera of Melamphaes simus (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Melamphaes simus in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.