Galapagos Species Database

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

Lestidiops pacificus (Parr, 1931)

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Chordata

Class
Teleostei

Order
Aulopiformes

Family
Paralepididae

Genus
Lestidiops

Species
pacificus

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.:Lestidiops jayakari pacifica (Parr, 1931), Lestidiops pacifica (Parr, 1931), Lestidiops pacificum (Parr, 1931), Lestidium pacificum (Parr, 1931), Paralepis pacificus Parr, 1931 (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

Status

Least concern

Distribution

Distribution: Southwest Pacific: New Zealand. Eastern Pacific: south from 38°N and east of about 173°W; also found in the Gulf of Panama, and off Chile (Froese and Pauly, 2021).

References

  • Froese, R. D. Pauly. Eds. (2021) FishBase World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org,
  • 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.
  • IUCN (2023) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-2 Https://www.iucnredlist.org
  • WoRMS Editorial Board (2013) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) Available from http://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ

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"Galapagos Species Database, Lestidiops pacificus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24777. Accessed 5 June 2026.