Maldives Marine Life

Marine life of Maldivian waters

← All species
Hawaiian halosaurid fish
No photo available
Photo: Louis Bideault / Wikimedia Commons, Public domain (view on Wikimedia Commons)Historical illustration. Source: Vaillant L. Expeditions Scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman pendant les années 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883. Poissons. – Paris, 1888. – Plate XVI, figure 1. G; Commons file: Aldrovandia phalacra.jpg

Hawaiian halosaurid fish

Aldrovandia phalacra

Valid name (FishBase; confirmed in Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes and WoRMS, October 2026).

English
Hawaiian halosaurid fish
Scientific
Aldrovandia phalacra
Dhivehi
No recorded Dhivehi name
Group
Deep-water fish
Family
Halosauridae (halosaurs)
Maximum size
Up to about 50 cm (total length)
Depth and habitat
Near the bottom and in the water column above it, recorded from 500 to 2300 m
IUCN status
LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2011

Description

An eel-shaped deep-sea fish, light grey with a silvery-blue head, reaching about 50 cm. It lives close to the bottom on deep island and continental slopes, roughly 500 to 2,300 m.

Sources

Dhivehi name source: No Dhivehi name found in MRS 1997 (available chapters), FishBase (country: Maldives) or Dhivehi Wikipedia.