COL·D54BNspeciesThe Nature Library · Catalogue of Life, 2026

Figure 3 Right-side scales of Polymixia melanostoma sp. nov., holotype, NMMB-P39587, 110.2 mm SLA scale on caudal pedunc Fan, Su, Lin, 2024 (CC BY 4.0) · Plazi / Biodiversity Literature Repository. Found by name on iNaturalist, Wikimedia Commons and in the open-access papers that described the species (Plazi); click a picture for its credit and licence.

Figure 3 Right-side scales of Polymixia melanostoma sp. nov., holotype, NMMB-P39587, 110.2 mm SLA scale on caudal pedunc Fan, Su, Lin, 2024 (CC BY 4.0) · Plazi / Biodiversity Literature Repository. Found by name on iNaturalist, Wikimedia Commons and in the open-access papers that described the species (Plazi); click a picture for its credit and licence.

Black-mouth beardfish

Polymixia melanostoma Fan, Su, Lin, Chang & Lin, 2024

Also called黑口鬚銀眼鯛 (zho)

This species is in the Catalogue of Life but not yet in the 2023 GBIF backbone or on iNaturalist: most likely it was described, or split from another species, very recently. What is known so far is below.

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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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References

Fan, Y.-C.; Su, Y.; Lin, C.-H.; Chang, C.-W.; Lin, H.-C. (2024). Polymixia melanostoma, a new beardfish from the western Pacific (Teleostei, Polymixiiformes, Polymixiidae). ZooKeys, 1220: 105–121. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1220.125127

From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.