Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Cyclothone atraria
Pez luminoso, Bristlemouth
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Teleostei
Order
Stomiiformes
Family
Gonostomatidae
Genus
Cyclothone
Species
atraria
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Cyalothone atraria Gilbert, 1905, Cyclothone pacifica Mukhacheva, 1964(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, Cyclothone atraria", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24742. Accessed 5 November 2026.