Galapagos Species Database

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

Platytroctes apus Günther, 1878

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Chordata

Class
Teleostei

Order
Alepocephaliformes

Family
Platytroctidae

Genus
Platytroctes

Species
apus

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Platytroctes procerus Brauer, 1906 (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

References

  • 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, Platytroctes apus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24739. Accessed 5 November 2026.