Southern Opah
Lampris immaculatus Gilchrist, 1904
Also calledOpa del Sur (spa) · Opah austral, Poisson des dieux austral (fra) · Poisson des dieux austral (fra) · Опах низкотелый (rus)
First described in: Gilchrist, J. D. F. (1904). Descriptions of new South African fishes. <em>Marine Investigations in South Africa.</em> v. 3: 1-16, Pls. 19-36.
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”.
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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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Lampris immaculatus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2400462.