Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Parvphylum Osteichthyes > Gigaclass Actinopterygii > Subclass Neopterygii > Class Teleostei > Order Stomiiformes > Family Sternoptychidae > Subfamily Sternoptychinae > Genus Argyropelecus

Argyropelecus olfersii (Cuvier, 1829)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Argyropelecus*	Cocco, 1829	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Argyropelecus olfersi*	(Cuvier, 1829)	orthographic variant
*Sternoptyx olfersii*	Cuvier, 1829	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

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

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

Swedish: pärlemorfisk

Literature

additional source	Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024).
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
FishBase images (Argyropelecus olfersii, by Dolgov, A.)

Citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Argyropelecus olfersii (Cuvier, 1829). 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:274967