Species under Aspidosiphon
n= 20
Species name Common name Distribution Max. Length (cm)
Aspidosiphon albus
Murina, 1967
Atlantic Ocean 4.5
Aspidosiphon coyi
de Quatrefages, 1865
Antarctic Indian Ocean and Indo-Pacific
Aspidosiphon elegans
(Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821)
Western Atlantic, Indo-Pacific and the Mediterranean 5.7
Aspidosiphon exiguus
Edmonds, 1974
Western Central Atlantic 4.9
Aspidosiphon fischeri
ten Broeke, 1925
Western Atlantic and Eastern Pacific 1.6
Aspidosiphon gosnoldi
Cutler, 1981
Western Atlantic
Aspidosiphon gracilis
(Baird, 1868)
Western Central Pacific
Aspidosiphon hartmeyeri
Cutler, E.B.
Southwest Pacific
Aspidosiphon laevis
de Quatrefages, 1865
Indo-Pacific, Atlantic and the Caribbean Sea
Aspidosiphon mexicanus
(Murina, 1967)
Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean
Aspidosiphon misakiensis
Ikeda, 1904
Indo-Pacific, Antarctic Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean 2.5
Aspidosiphon muelleri
Diesing, 1851
Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean and Indo-Pacific 8
Aspidosiphon parvulus
Gerould, 1913
Western Atlantic, Western Central Pacific and the Caribbean Sea
Aspidosiphon planoscutatus
Murina, 1968
Western Indian Ocean
Aspidosiphon spiralis
Sluiter, 1902
Western Central Pacific
Aspidosiphon steenstrupii
Diesing, 1859
Indo-Pacific and Western Central Atlantic 4
Aspidosiphon tenuis
Sluiter, 1886
Indo-Pacific
Aspidosiphon thomassini
Cutler & Cutler, 1979
Western Indian Ocean 7
Aspidosiphon venabulum
Selenka & Bülow, 1883
Western Indian Ocean and Southeast Atlantic 3
Aspidosiphon zinni
Cutler, 1969
Northeast Atlantic and Indo-West Pacific 7.5
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