WoRMS taxon details
Apodichthys flavidus Girard, 1854
279664 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:279664)
accepted
Species
Apodichthys inornatus Gill, 1862 · unaccepted
Apodichthys sanguineus Gill, 1862 · unaccepted
Apodichthys univittatus Lockington, 1881 · unaccepted (synonym)
Apodichthys virescens Ayres, 1855 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Girard, C. F. (1854). Observations upon a collection of fishes made on the Pacific coast of the United States, by Lieut. W. P. Trowbridge, U. S. A., for the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 7: 142-156. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Apodichthys flavidus Girard, 1854. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=279664 on 2026-07-10
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Nomenclature
original description
Girard, C. F. (1854). Observations upon a collection of fishes made on the Pacific coast of the United States, by Lieut. W. P. Trowbridge, U. S. A., for the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 7: 142-156. [details]
original description (of Apodichthys inornatus Gill, 1862) Gill, T.N. (1862). Notice of a collection of the fishes of California presented to the Smithsonian Institution by Mr. Samuel Hubbard. <em>Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.</em> 14: 274-282. [details]
original description (of Apodichthys sanguineus Gill, 1862) Gill, T.N. (1862). Notice of a collection of the fishes of California presented to the Smithsonian Institution by Mr. Samuel Hubbard. <em>Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.</em> 14: 274-282. [details]
original description (of Apodichthys virescens Ayres, 1855) Ayres, W. O. (1855). [Descriptions of new species of Californian fishes.] A number of short notices read before the Society at several meetings in 1855. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.</em> (Series 1) v. 1 (pt 1): 23-77. [Reprinted in 2nd ed. of Academy's Proceedings 1873 with slightly different pagination; see also Ayres 1854.]. [details]
original description (of Apodichthys inornatus Gill, 1862) Gill, T.N. (1862). Notice of a collection of the fishes of California presented to the Smithsonian Institution by Mr. Samuel Hubbard. <em>Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.</em> 14: 274-282. [details]
original description (of Apodichthys sanguineus Gill, 1862) Gill, T.N. (1862). Notice of a collection of the fishes of California presented to the Smithsonian Institution by Mr. Samuel Hubbard. <em>Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.</em> 14: 274-282. [details]
original description (of Apodichthys virescens Ayres, 1855) Ayres, W. O. (1855). [Descriptions of new species of Californian fishes.] A number of short notices read before the Society at several meetings in 1855. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.</em> (Series 1) v. 1 (pt 1): 23-77. [Reprinted in 2nd ed. of Academy's Proceedings 1873 with slightly different pagination; see also Ayres 1854.]. [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 (14 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) (from synonym Apodichthys univittatus Lockington, 1881)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (49 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Apodichthys inornatus Gill, 1862)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Apodichthys sanguineus Gill, 1862)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Apodichthys virescens Ayres, 1855)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Apodichthys flavidus)
To FishBase (from synonym Apodichthys inornatus Gill, 1862)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Apodichthys virescens Ayres, 1855)
To FishBase (from synonym Apodichthys univittatus Lockington, 1881)
To FishBase (from synonym Apodichthys sanguineus Gill, 1862)
To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 37 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Apodichthys flavidus RAD107620-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Apodichthys flavidus RAD107620-001)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) (from synonym Apodichthys univittatus Lockington, 1881)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (49 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Apodichthys inornatus Gill, 1862)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Apodichthys sanguineus Gill, 1862)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Apodichthys virescens Ayres, 1855)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Apodichthys flavidus)
To FishBase (from synonym Apodichthys inornatus Gill, 1862)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Apodichthys virescens Ayres, 1855)
To FishBase (from synonym Apodichthys univittatus Lockington, 1881)
To FishBase (from synonym Apodichthys sanguineus Gill, 1862)
To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 37 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Apodichthys flavidus RAD107620-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Apodichthys flavidus RAD107620-001)
To ITIS