WoRMS taxon details
Aetapcus maculatus (Günther, 1861)
279511 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:279511)
accepted
Species
Aetapcus vincenti (Steindachner, 1861) · unaccepted
Pataecus maculatus Günther, 1861 · unaccepted
Pataecus vincenti Steindachner, 1861 · unaccepted
Pataecus vincentii Steindachner, 1861 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Pataecus maculatus Günther, 1861) Günther, A. (1861). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. Gobiidae, Discoboli, Pediculati, Blenniidae, Labyrinthici, Mugilidae, Notacanthi. <em>London.</em> v. 3: i-xxv + 1-586 + i-x. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Aetapcus maculatus (Günther, 1861). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=279511 on 2026-07-09
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Pataecus maculatus Günther, 1861) Günther, A. (1861). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. Gobiidae, Discoboli, Pediculati, Blenniidae, Labyrinthici, Mugilidae, Notacanthi. <em>London.</em> v. 3: i-xxv + 1-586 + i-x. [details]
original description (of Pataecus vincentii Steindachner, 1861) Steindachner, F. (1883). Ichthyologische Beiträge (XIII). <em>Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Klasse.</em> v. 20 (no. 22): 194-197. [details]
original description (of Pataecus vincentii Steindachner, 1861) Steindachner, F. (1883). Ichthyologische Beiträge (XIII). <em>Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Klasse.</em> v. 20 (no. 22): 194-197. [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present
Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Aetapcus vincenti (Steindachner, 1861))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Pataecus maculatus Günther, 1861)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Aetapcus maculatus)
To FishBase (from synonym Aetapcus vincenti (Steindachner, 1861))
To FishBase (from synonym Pataecus maculatus Günther, 1861)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Pataecus vincenti Steindachner, 1861)
To FishBase (from synonym Pataecus vincentii Steindachner, 1861)
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 6 proteins) (from synonym Pataecus maculatus Günther, 1861)
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Aetapcus vincenti (Steindachner, 1861))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Pataecus maculatus Günther, 1861)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Aetapcus maculatus)
To FishBase (from synonym Aetapcus vincenti (Steindachner, 1861))
To FishBase (from synonym Pataecus maculatus Günther, 1861)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Pataecus vincenti Steindachner, 1861)
To FishBase (from synonym Pataecus vincentii Steindachner, 1861)
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 6 proteins) (from synonym Pataecus maculatus Günther, 1861)
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To ITIS