Zalieutes

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 271271ITIS 164596key worms:271271

2026-08-05: itis_id 164596 via WoRMS external link

Zalieutes is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Ogcocephalidae, the deep sea batfishes. The species in this genus are benthic fishes found in deep waters in the Western Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Oceans.W CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1999 and 1999.R

1
observations: 1
records: 1999
years: 1
datasets

Photo · NOAA's Fisheries Collection · Public domain · commons

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:271271")

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it not on record

Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Under it 1 taxon

sp Zalieutes elater Spotted batfish1

Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Ogcocephalidae

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · maija.karala · CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Ogcocephalus darwini · source
Photo · NOAA's Fisheries Collection · Public domain · commons · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Zalieutes” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354742752

Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

Wikidata iNaturalist GBIF

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

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