Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Argyropelecus aculeatus
Pez hacha plateado, Lovely hatchetfish
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Teleostei
Order
Stomiiformes
Family
Sternoptychidae
Genus
Argyropelecus
Species
aculeatus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Argyropelachus aculeatus Valenciennes, 1850, Argyropelachus amabilis (Ogilby, 1888), Argyropelecus amabilis (Ogilby, 1888), Argyropelecus antrorsospinus Schultz, 1937, Argyropelecus caninus Garman, 1899, Argyropelecus micracanthus Parr, 1937, Sternoptychides amabilis Ogilby, 1888 (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, Argyropelecus aculeatus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24755. Accessed 5 November 2026.