Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Sternoptyx diaphana
Hacha Transparente, Diaphanous hatchet fish
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Teleostei
Order
Stomiiformes
Family
Sternoptychidae
Genus
Sternoptyx
Species
diaphana
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Sternopteryx diaphana Hermann, 1781 (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, Sternoptyx diaphana", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24761. Accessed 5 November 2026.