Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Bathytroctes microlepis
Smallscale smooth-head
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Teleostei
Order
Alepocephaliformes
Family
Alepocephalidae
Genus
Bathytroctes
Species
microlepis
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Bathyroctes danae Parr, 1951, Bathytroctes danae Parr, 1951, Bathytroctes grimaldii Zugmayer, 1911, Grimatroctes bullisi Grey, 1958, Grimatroctes grimaldi (Zugmayer, 1911), Grimatroctes grimaldii (Zugmayer, 1911), Grimatroctes microlepis (Günther, 1878) (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
- Grove, J.S. Long, D.J., Robertson, D.R. & Victor, B.C. (2022) List of Fishes of the Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 39, 14–22.
- 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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Bathytroctes microlepis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24735. Accessed 5 November 2026.