Bathypterois dubius Vaillant 1888

• Main Authors: Goren, Menachem, Galil, Bella S.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Aulopiformes; Ipnopidae; Bathypterois; Bathypterois dubius; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5629273; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D987E4FFFA0C26FF1A84BAFDCAFEEF

Bathypterois dubius Vaillant, 1888 Bathypterois dubius Vaillant, 1888: 124, Pls. 9, 12, 14, 15. Type locality: Azores, Atlantic Ocean. Bathypterois dubius , Quéro & Ribes, 1999: 200 –204 (synonymized B. mediterraneus with B. dubius ); Bathypterois mediterraneus Bauchot, 1962: 639, Figs. 4b, 6. Type locality: Rosas, Costa Brava, Spain. Bathypterois mediterraneus, Klausewitz, 1989: 255; Galil & Goren, 1994: 48; Goren & Galil, 1997: 201; 2002: 151; Gates et al. , 2012: 217–219. Distribution. Northeastern Atlantic, Mediterranean; depth range 260–2800 m. Comment. Quero & Ribes (1999), who compared the populations of B. mediterraneus and B . dubius from the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean, concluded that they are identical and B. mediterraneus is a junior synonym of B. dubius . Froese & Pauly (2014) stated that B. mediterraneus "may be valid". Further taxonomic study using molecular tools may resolve the issue. Published as part of Goren, Menachem & Galil, Bella S., 2015, A checklist of the deep sea fishes of the Levant Sea, Mediterranean Sea, pp. 507-530 in Zootaxa 3994 (4) on pages 512-513, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3994.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/244394