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WoRMS taxon details

Atractosteus tropicus Gill, 1863

AphiaID

293650 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:293650)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Atractosteus Rafinesque, 1820

Original name

Atractosteus tropicus Gill, 1863

Synonymised names

Lepisosteus tristoechus tropicus (Gill, 1863) · unaccepted (senior synonym)

Lepisosteus tropicus (Gill, 1863) · unaccepted

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Gill, T. N. (1863). Descriptive enumeration of a collection of fishes from the western coast of Central America presented to the Smithsonian Institution by Captain John M. Dow. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. v. 15: 162-174. [details]

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2026). Atractosteus tropicus Gill, 1863. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=293650 on 2026-07-09

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-02-18 18:07:20Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2012-05-07 12:11:08Z

checked

Bailly, Nicolas

2017-07-19 06:48:43Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Gill, T. N. (1863). Descriptive enumeration of a collection of fishes from the western coast of Central America presented to the Smithsonian Institution by Captain John M. Dow. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. v. 15: 162-174. [details]

basis of record Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [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. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]