Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Lophiodes spilurus
pez sapo, bocón barbudo, rape de hebra, rape de rabo delgado, Threadfin angler, threadfin goosefish
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Teleostei
Order
Lophiiformes
Family
Lophiidae
Genus
Lophiodes
Species
spilurus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Lophiodon spilurus (Garman, 1899), a spelling error (McCosker & Rosenblatt, 2010).
Origin: Native
Distribution: Eastern Pacific: central California (U.S.A.) south to Chile, including Gulf of California (Mexico), Cocos Island (Costa Rica) and Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) in Fricke, et al. 2023).
- Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
- Fricke, R. Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. eds. (2022) ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES: GENERA, SPECIES, REFERENCES. (http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp). Electronic version.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- McCosker, J.E. Rosenblatt, R.H. (2010) The fishes of the Galápagos Archipelago: an update. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sc., Ser. 4, vol. 61, Suppl. II, no. 11: 167-195.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Lophiodes spilurus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=14608. Accessed 31 October 2026.