Galapagos Species Database

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

Aphanopus intermedius Parin, 1983

Sable intermedio, Intermediate scabbardfish

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Chordata

Class
Teleostei

Order
Scombriformes

Family
Trichiuridae

Genus
Aphanopus

Species
intermedius

Taxon category: Accepted

Origin: Native

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: Atlantic Ocean: in moderately warm and tropical waters; it has not been found only off the coast of South America. In the eastern Atlantic, it is found off western Sahara, Congo and Angola, from Sierra Leone submarine rise and Pilberry Seamount (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.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Aphanopus intermedius", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24806. Accessed 5 November 2026.