Galapagos Species Database

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

Cyclothone obscura Brauer, 1902

Hidden bristlemouth

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Chordata

Class
Teleostei

Order
Stomiiformes

Family
Gonostomatidae

Genus
Cyclothone

Species
obscura

Taxon category: Accepted

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, Cyclothone obscura", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24743. Accessed 5 November 2026.