WoRMS taxon details
original description
Regan, C. T. (1905). On a collection of fishes from the inland sea of Japan made by Mr. R. Gordon Smith. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7).</em> 15 (85) (art. 2): 17-26, Pls. 2-3. [details]
taxonomy source
Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2024). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2024., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
basis of record
Smith, J.L.B. (1961). Fishes of the family Apogonidae of the Western Indian Ocean and the Seychelles. Ichthyological Bulletin 22. [details]
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2023). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2023)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source
Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From other sources
Description In life transparent, without scales, the body covered with transverse and longitudinal series of papillae. Moderate number of gillrakers. Mouth large with 1-2 series of small sharp teeth and small canines in each jaw. Canines on vomer. Small teeth on palatines, none on pterygoids. Caudal forked. Small feeble fishes of the tropical Indo-Pacific, living in shelter in broken coral in tide pools [details]
Type species Type species: G. japonicus Regan, 1905 (Japan) [details]
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