Author: Peters, 1877
Idiacanthus fasciola Peters, 1877
Status in World Register of Marine Species:
Accepted name: Idiacanthus fasciola Peters, 1877 (updated 2009-06-25)
Diagnosis: see family.
Habitat, etc.: see family.
Distribution: northward to about 43° N near the Azores and 39° N off Portugal. Elsewhere, across the North Atlantic between about 10° N in the west and 17° N in the east to about 40° N; South Atlantic off South Africa; Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Eggs, larvae and young stages. Beebe, 1933: 390; 1934: 156-288, fig. 49A-E, 50A-E, 51-55, 58-59, 62A-E, 63A-E, 64A-D, 65A-E | Gibbs, 1964: 517-518, fig. 138A-E, 139A-E, 140 | Novikova, 1967: 164-169, fig. 1A-B, 2A-B.
Otoliths (sagitta). No data.