Ventrifossa  Gilbert & Hubbs, 1920 
Lucigadella  Gilbert & Hubbs, 1920; (synonym)
Lucigadus  Gilbert & Hubbs, 1920; (valid subgenus)
Sokodara  Iwamoto, 1979; (synonym)
 
 
 
Ventrifossa atherodon  Iwamoto, 1979 
Optonurus atherodon  Gilbert & Cramer, 1897; (valid as)
Atherodus atherodon  Gilbert & Hubbs, 1920; (valid as)
 
 
 
 
Ventrifossa ctenomelas  Iwamoto, 1979 
Chalinura ctenomelas  Gilbert & Cramer, 1897; (valid as)
 
 
 
 
Ventrifossa divergens  Gilbert & Hubbs, 1920 
Ventrifossa divergens  Gilbert & Hubbs, 1920; (valid, uncertain)
 
 
 
 
Ventrifossa fusca  Okamura, 1982 
 
 
Ventrifossa garmani  Gilbert & Hubbs, 1920 
Coryphaenoides garmani  Jordan & Gilbert, 1904; (valid as)
Ventrifossa garmani  Iwamoto, 1979
 
 
 
 
Ventrifossa johnboborum  Iwamoto, 1982 
 
 
Ventrifossa longibarbata  Okamura, 1982 
Ventrifossa longebarbata  Cohen et al., 1990; (misspelling)
 
 
 
 
Ventrifossa lucifer  Iwamoto, 1979 
Macrourus lucifer  Smith & Radcliffe, 1912; (valid as)
Lucigadus lucifer  Gilbert & Hubbs, 1920; (valid as)
 
 
 
 
Ventrifossa macrodon  Sazonov & Iwamoto, 1992 
 
 
Ventrifossa macropogon  Marshall, 1973 
 
 
Ventrifossa macroptera  Okamura, 1982 
 
 
Ventrifossa misakia  Iwamoto, 1979 
Coryphaenoides misakius  Jordan & Gilbert, 1904; (valid as)
Sokodara misakia  Iwamoto, 1979; (valid as)
 
 
 
 
Ventrifossa mucocephalus  Marshall, 1973 
 
 
Ventrifossa mystax  Iwamoto & Anderson, 1994 
 
 
Ventrifossa nasuta  Iwamoto, 1986 
Lionurus nasutus  Smith, 1935; (valid as)
 
 
 
 
Ventrifossa nigrodorsalis  Gilbert & Hubbs, 1920 
 
 
Ventrifossa nigromaculatus  
Lucigadus nigromaculatus ; (valid as)
Macrourus nigromaculatus  McCulloch, 1907; (valid as)
Ventrifossa nigromaculata  Iwamoto, 1979; (valid as)
Ventrifossa nigromaculatus  Okamura, 1990; (valid as)
 
 
 
 
Ventrifossa nigromarginata  Iwamoto, 1979 
Macrourus nigromarginatus  Smith & Radcliffe, 1912; (valid as)
Lucigadella nigromarginata  Gilbert & Hubbs, 1920; (valid as)
 
 
 
 
Ventrifossa obtusirostris  Sazonov & Iwamoto, 1992 
 
 
Ventrifossa occidentalis  Geistdoerfer, 1990 
Malacocephalus occidentalis  Goode & Bean, 1885; (valid as)
Coryphaenoides sublaevis  Vaillant, 1888; (synonym)
Pawnurus occidentalis  Parr, 1946; (valid as)
 
 
 
 
Ventrifossa ori  Iwamoto, 1979 
Macruroplus ori  Smith, 1968; (valid as)
 
 
 
 
Ventrifossa petersonii  Iwamoto, 1979 
Macrurus hispidus  Alcock, 1889; (synonym)
Macrurus petersonii  Alcock, 1891; (valid as)
Macrurus petersoni  Iwamoto, 1990; (misspelling)
 
 
 
 
Ventrifossa rhipidodorsalis  Okamura, 1984 
 
 
Ventrifossa saikaiensis  Okamura, 1984 
 
 
Ventrifossa teres  Sazanov & Iwamoto, 1992 
 
  
 
 
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References: 
[CoL] Catalogue of Life 
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Vandepitte, L., Hobern, D., Schalk, P., DeWalt, R. E., Ma, K., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Adlard, R., Aedo, C., et al. (2024). Catalogue of Life Checklist (Version 2024-03-26);  https://doi.org/10.48580/dfz8d 
 [iNaturalist]  
 iNaturalist 
   
 
Additional information sources: 
 
The taxonomic information and the basic database has been provided by; e-mail:  Igor Sheremetyev ; This is a conversion from a database dump, and there are probably many odd things as result of automatic conversion.