Species under Ascorhynchus
n= 75
Species name Common name Distribution Max. Length (cm)
Ascorhynchus abyssi
Sars, 1877
Northeast Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean
Ascorhynchus agassizi
Schimkewitsch, 1893
Eastern Central Pacific
Ascorhynchus antipodus
Child, 1987
Southwest Pacific
Ascorhynchus arenicolum
(Dohrn, 1881)
Southeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean
Ascorhynchus armatus
(Wilson, 1881)
Western Atlantic and Indo-West Pacific region except from West Indies (Ref
Ascorhynchus athernum
Child, 1982
Northwest Atlantic
Ascorhynchus auchenicum
(Slater, 1879)
Northwest Pacific
Ascorhynchus bacescui
Stock, 1975
Western Indian Ocean
Ascorhynchus birsteini
Turpaeva, 1971
Southeast Pacific
Ascorhynchus breviscapus
Stock, 1968
Western Central Pacific
Ascorhynchus bucerus
Turpaeva, 1971
Northwest Pacific
Ascorhynchus cactoides
Stock, 1954
Western Central Pacific
Ascorhynchus castelli
(Dohrn, 1881)
Western Atlantic and the Mediterranean
Ascorhynchus castellioides
Stock, 1957
Western Central Atlantic
Ascorhynchus colei
Hedgpeth, 1943
Western Central Atlantic
Ascorhynchus comatus
Child, 1992
Eastern Pacific
Ascorhynchus compactus
Clark, 1963
Indo-West Pacific
Ascorhynchus constrictus
Stock, 1991
Western Central Pacific
Ascorhynchus cooki
Child, 1987
Southwest Pacific and the Antarctic
Ascorhynchus corderoi
du Bois-Reymond Marcus, 1952
Indo-Pacific
Ascorhynchus crenatus
Child, 1992
Western Central Atlantic
Ascorhynchus cryptopygius
Ortmann, 1890
Northwest Pacific
Ascorhynchus cuculus
Fry & Hedgpeth, 1969
Atlantic Antarctic
Ascorhynchus dietheus
Child, 2002
Western Indian Ocean
Ascorhynchus discrepans
Stock, 1955
Western Central Atlantic
Ascorhynchus endoparasiticus
Arnaud, 1978
Northeast Atlantic
Ascorhynchus foresti
Stock, 1991
Western Central Pacific
Ascorhynchus fragilis
Stock, 1991
Western Pacific
Ascorhynchus fusticulus
Nakamura & Child, 1983
Northwest Pacific
Ascorhynchus glaber
Hoek, 1881
Antarctic and Western Indian Ocean
Ascorhynchus glaberrimus
Schimkewitsch, 1913
Northwest Pacific
Ascorhynchus hedgpethi
Turpaeva, 1974
Southwest Atlantic
Ascorhynchus heuresis
Bamber, 2002
Northeast Atlantic
Ascorhynchus hippos
Turpaeva, 1994
Northern Pacific
Ascorhynchus horologius
Child, 1992
Western Central Atlantic
Ascorhynchus inflatus
Stock, 1963
Pacific Ocean and South Atlantic
Ascorhynchus insularus
Clark, 1972
Southwest Pacific
Ascorhynchus ios
Bamber & Thurston, 1993
Eastern Central Atlantic
Ascorhynchus japonicus
Ives, 1891
Pacific Ocean
Ascorhynchus laterospinus
Hilton, 1942
Eastern Pacific
Ascorhynchus latipes
(Cole, 1906)
Western and Central Atlantic
Ascorhynchus levissimus
Loman, 1908
Central Indo-West Pacific
Ascorhynchus levivani
Turpaeva, 1994
Northern Pacific
Ascorhynchus longicollis
(Haswell, 1884)
Indo-West Pacific
Ascorhynchus losinalosinskii
Turpaeva, 1971
Northwest Pacific
Ascorhynchus mariae
Turpaeva, 1971
Northwest Pacific
Ascorhynchus melwardi
Flynn, 1929
Western Central Pacific
Ascorhynchus meteor
Müller, 1989
Western Indian Ocean
Ascorhynchus miniscapus
Stock, 1993
Western Central Pacific
Ascorhynchus minutus
Hoek, 1881
Western Central Pacific
Ascorhynchus okai
Nakamura & Child, 1983
Western Pacific
Ascorhynchus ornatus
(Helfer, 1938)
Southeast Atlantic, Pacific Ocean and Antarctic Indian Ocean
Ascorhynchus orthorhynchus
Hoek, 1881
Western Central Pacific
Ascorhynchus orthostomum
Child, 1998
Southwest Pacific 4.6
Ascorhynchus ovicoxa
Stock, 1975
Western Atlantic
Ascorhynchus pararmatus
Stock, 1975
Western Central Atlantic
Ascorhynchus parvituberculatus
Stock, 1953
Northwest Pacific
Ascorhynchus paxillum
Child, 1992
Eastern Pacific
Ascorhynchus pennai
(Mello-Leitao, 1946)
Southwest Atlantic
Ascorhynchus pilipes
Stock, 1991
Western Central Pacific
Ascorhynchus prosus
Nakamura & Child, 1983
Northwest Pacific
Ascorhynchus pudicus
Stock, 1970
Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean
Ascorhynchus pyrginospinum
McCloskey, 1967
Northwest Pacific and Western Atlantic
Ascorhynchus ramipes
(Bohm, 1879)
Northwest Pacific
Ascorhynchus serratus
Hedgpeth, 1948
Western Central Atlantic
Ascorhynchus seticauda
Stock, 1991
Indo-West Pacific
Ascorhynchus simile
Fage, 1942
Eastern Central Atlantic
Ascorhynchus simplex
Nakamura & Child, 1991
Northwest Pacific
Ascorhynchus somaliensis
Stock, 1994
Western Indian Ocean
Ascorhynchus stocki
Hong & Kim, 1987
Northwest Pacific
Ascorhynchus tenuirostris
Carpenter, 1892
Western Central Pacific
Ascorhynchus tuberosus
Utinomi, 1962
Northwest Pacific
Ascorhynchus turritus
Stock, 1978
Atlantic Ocean
Ascorhynchus utinomii
Nakamura & Child, 1982
Northwest Pacific
Ascorhynchus verrucosus
Stock, 1991
Central Indo-West Pacific
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