Author: Regan, 1925
Leptacanthichthys gracilispinis Regan, 1925
Status in World Register of Marine Species:
Accepted name: Leptacanthichthys gracilispinis (Regan, 1925) (updated 2009-06-25)
Dolopichthys gracilispinis Regan, 1925:563 (original description; two specimens; lectotype designated by Bertelsen, 1951, ZMUC P9295). Regan, 1926:27, 30, pl. V, fig. 2 (brief description after Regan, 1925: in key).
Dolopichthys (Leptacanthichthys) gracilispinis Regan and Trewavas, 1932:66, 80 fig. 128 (genus Dolopichthys broadened to incorporate 5 subgenera, amended by Bertelsen, 1951; description after Regan, 1925, 1926: in key).
Leptacanthichthys gracilispinis Bertelsen, 1951:74, 94, fig. 49 (subgenus Leptacanthichthys given generic status; description; in key). Grey, 1956:250 (synonymy; distribution). Pietsch, 1974:16-32, 82, 86-89, figs. 22, 34, 39c, 42, 5lc, 55, 59, 103, 104, tables 23, 24 (osteology; relationships, esca figured; in key); 1976- 784-785, figs. 2-5 (description of parasitic male); 1978:19-23, figs. 6D, 13D, 16, 17, 18, tables 1, 2 (description, additional specimens, distribution).
Diagnosis: see genus.
Habitat, Food, Reproduction: see suborder.
Distribution: Pacific, north-eastern Atlantic including a single not previously published record from north-east of the Azores (FFS Anton Dohrn, May 1979, St. 380/79).