Risso's Smooth-head

Alepocephalus rostratus Risso, 1820

Also calledAlépocephale (fra) · Alépocéphale à bec, Caussinie (fra) · Caussinié (fra) · Talisman (spa) · Testa Nuda (fra) · Ullot Negre (spa) · purppurasilopää (fin) · uzlatka východoatlantská (ces) · Длиннорылый гладкоголов (rus)

First described in: Risso, A. (1820). Mémoire sur un nouveau genre de poisson nommé Alépocéphale vivant dans les grandes profondeurs de la mer de Nice. <em>Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino.</em> v. 25: 270-272, Pl. 10 (fig. 4).

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”.