Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Bathylagoides nigrigenys
Blackchin blacksmelt
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Teleostei
Order
Argentiniformes
Family
Bathylagidae
Genus
Bathylagoides
Species
nigrigenys
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Bathylagus nigrigenys Parr, 1931(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, Bathylagoides nigrigenys", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24740. Accessed 5 November 2026.