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Threadfin Smooth-head
Talismania mekistonema Sulak, 1975
Also calledruskorihmasilopää (fin) · uzlatka batypelagická (ces) · Нитчатоплавниковая талисмания (rus)
First described in: Sulak, K. J. (1975). Biological results of the University of Miami Deep-Sea Expeditions. 111. Talismania mekistonema, a new Atlantic species of the family Alepocephalidae (Pisces: Salmoniformes). <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 25 (1): 88-93.
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 Talismania mekistonema in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2410821.