Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Lophiodes spilurus (Garman, 1899)

pez sapo, bocón barbudo, rape de hebra, rape de rabo delgado, Threadfin angler, threadfin goosefish

Taxonomy

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

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).

References

  • 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.