Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Parvphylum Osteichthyes > Gigaclass Actinopterygii > Subclass Neopterygii > Class Teleostei > Order Gadiformes > Family Macrouridae > Subfamily Macrourinae > Genus Coryphaenoides

Coryphaenoides rupestris Gunnerus, 1765

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Coryphaenoides*	Gunnerus, 1765	accepted genus name
*Chalinura*	Goode & Bean, 1883	synonym
*Lionurus*	Günther, 1887	synonym
*Nematonurus*	Günther, 1887	synonym

Species group names

*Coryphaenoides (Coryphaenoides) rupestris*	Gunnerus, 1765	synonym; alternate representation

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: skolæst sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: rondneusgrenadiervis sources: VLIZ. (2016). Wetenschappelijke en handelsbenamingen voor visserij- en aquacultuurproducten op de Belgische markt. VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's, BIN 2016_001. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee: Oostende. 28 + Annex. pp.

English: rock grenadier; roundhead rat-tail; roundnose grenadier sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS);PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;VLIZ. (2016). Wetenschappelijke en handelsbenamingen voor visserij- en aquacultuurproducten op de Belgische markt. VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's, BIN 2016_001. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee: Oostende. 28 + Annex. pp.

French: grenadier de roche sources: VLIZ. (2016). Wetenschappelijke en handelsbenamingen voor visserij- en aquacultuurproducten op de Belgische markt. VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's, BIN 2016_001. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee: Oostende. 28 + Annex. pp.

German: Rundnasen-Grenadier sources: VLIZ. (2016). Wetenschappelijke en handelsbenamingen voor visserij- en aquacultuurproducten op de Belgische markt. VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's, BIN 2016_001. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee: Oostende. 28 + Annex. pp.

Norwegian Bokmål: skolest sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: skolest sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: skoläst; storfjällig skoläst sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;Dyntaxa. (2013). Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013].

Welsh: cynffon llygoden

Literature

original description	Gunnerus, J. E. (1765). Efterretning om Berglaxen, en rar Norsk fisk, som kunde kaldes: Coryphaenoides rupestris. Der Trondhiemske Selskabs Skrifter. v. 3: 50-58, Pl. 3. [German translation appeared in Der Drontheimischen Gesellschaft Schriften v. 3, 1767: 43-50.].
basis of record	Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. No. 219. 731 pp.
additional source	Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024).
additional source	Welshman, D.; Kohler, S; Black, J.; and L. Van Guelpen. (2003). An atlas of distributions of Canadian Atlantic fishes.
ecology source	Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1).

Genbank

External Links

FishBase images (Coryphaenoides rupestris, Canada, by Garazo Fabregat, A.)
FishBase

Citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Coryphaenoides rupestris Gunnerus, 1765. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158960