Galapagos Species Database

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Argyropelecus sladeni Regan, 1908

Sladen's hatchetfish

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Chordata

Class
Teleostei

Order
Stomiiformes

Family
Sternoptychidae

Genus
Argyropelecus

Species
sladeni

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Argyripnus sladeni (Regan, 1908), Argyropelecus hawaiensis Schultz, 1961,Argyropelecus lynchus hawaiensis Schultz, 1961 (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, Argyropelecus sladeni", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24759. Accessed 5 November 2026.