Galapagos Species Database

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

Maulisia isaacsi Matsui & Rosenblatt, 1987

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Chordata

Class
Teleostei

Order
Alepocephaliformes

Family
Platytroctidae

Genus
Maulisia

Species
isaacsi

Taxon category: Accepted

Origin: Endemic

Status

Data deficient

Distribution

Distribution: Southeast Pacific: Galapagos Islands. Expected to occur in the Western Central Pacific (Froese & Pauly, 2021)

References

  • Froese, R. D. Pauly. Eds. (2021) FishBase World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org,
  • 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.
  • IUCN (2023) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2023-1. Https://www.iucnredlist.org
  • Matsui, T. R.H. Rosenblatt (1984) Review of the deep-sea fish family Platytroctidae (Pisces: Salmoniformes) Bull. Scripps Inst. Oceanogr. 26(1-7):1-59

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"Galapagos Species Database, Maulisia isaacsi", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24712. Accessed 1 November 2026.