WoRMS taxon details

Lepisosteus Lacepède, 1803

157871  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157871)

accepted
Genus
Cylindostreus · unaccepted
Lepidosteus · unaccepted (misspelling)

Ordering

  • Alphabetically
  • By status

Children Display

  1. Species Lepisosteus oculatus Winchell, 1864
  2. Species Lepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  3. Species Lepisosteus berlandieri Girard, 1858 accepted as Atractosteus spatula (Lacepède, 1803)
  4. Species Lepisosteus ferox Rafinesque, 1820 accepted as Atractosteus spatula (Lacepède, 1803)
  5. Species Lepisosteus gavial Lacepède, 1803 accepted as Lepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  6. Species Lepisosteus gavialis Lacepède, 1803 accepted as Lepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus, 1758) (misspelling)
  7. Species Lepisosteus gracilis Richardson, 1836 accepted as Lepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  8. Species Lepisosteus huronensis Richardson, 1836 accepted as Lepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  9. Species Lepisosteus latirostris Girard, 1858 accepted as Lepisosteus oculatus Winchell, 1864
  10. Species Lepisosteus lineatus Thompson, 1842 accepted as Lepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  11. Species Lepisosteus longirostris Rafinesque, 1820 accepted as Lepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  12. Species Lepisosteus oxyurus Rafinesque, 1820 accepted as Lepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  13. Species Lepisosteus productus (Cope, 1865) accepted as Lepisosteus oculatus Winchell, 1864
  14. Species Lepisosteus spatula Lacepède, 1803 accepted as Atractosteus spatula (Lacepède, 1803)
  15. Species Lepisosteus stenorhynchus Rafinesque, 1818 accepted as Lepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  16. Species Lepisosteus treculii Duméril, 1870 accepted as Lepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  17. Species Lepisosteus tristoechus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) accepted as Atractosteus tristoechus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Lacepède, B.G.E. (1803). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome Cinquieme. 5(1-21): i-lxviii + 1-803 + index., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6335629 [details]   
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Lepisosteus Lacepède, 1803. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=157871 on 2024-03-19
Date
action
by
2005-05-24 14:41:52Z
created
2013-03-11 13:25:43Z
checked
2014-11-21 13:09:37Z
changed

Creative Commons License The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License


original description Lacepède, B.G.E. (1803). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome Cinquieme. 5(1-21): i-lxviii + 1-803 + index., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6335629 [details]   

original description  (of Litholepis Rafinesque, 1818) Rafinesque, C. S. (1818). Further discoveries in natural history, made during a journey through the western region of the United States. <em>American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review.</em> v. 3 (no. 6) (art. 6) (Oct.): 445-447. [details]   

original description  (of Sarchirus Rafinesque, 1818) Rafinesque, C. S. (1818). Description of three new genera of fluviatile fish, Pomoxis, Sarchirus and Exoglossum. <em>Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.</em> v. 1 (pt 2): 417-422, Pl. 17. [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 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 Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]   
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality