Telescope fish

Mendosoma lineatum Guichenot, 1848

First described in: Guichenot, A. (1848). Fauna Chilena. Peces. <em>Pp. 137-370. In: C. Gay, Historia fisica y politica de Chile. Zoología.</em> v. 2. Paris & Santiago. ["Ictiologia" plates 1-11 are in Atlas, v. 2; of 2 sets of plates at CAS, 1 set has some figures in color. Plates published in 1854. Sometimes author given as Valenciennes.].

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.