Carpenter's deepwater cardinalfish

Brephostoma carpenteri Alcock, 1889

Also calledUrokoyasemutsu (jpn) · Блефостома Карпентера (rus) · Брефостома Карпентера (rus) · ウロコヤセムツ (jpn)

First described in: Alcock, A. (1889). Natural history notes from H.M. Indian marine survey steamer ‘Investigator', Commander Alfred Carpenter, R.N., D.S.O., commanding.---No. 13. On the bathybial fishes of the Bay of Bengal and neighbouring waters, obtained during the seasons 1885-1889. <em>The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology.</em> 4(6): 376-399.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.