WoRMS taxon details
Carpiodes velifer (Rafinesque, 1820)
1022838 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1022838)
accepted
Species
Carpiodes difformis Cope, 1870 · unaccepted
Catostomus velifer Rafinesque, 1820 · unaccepted
(of Catostomus velifer Rafinesque, 1820) Rafinesque, C. S. (1820). Fishes of the Ohio River. [Ichthyologia Ohiensis, Part 6]. <em>Western Review and Miscellaneous Magazine: a monthly publ., devoted to literature and science, Lexington, KY.</em> v. 2 (no. 5): 299-307. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Carpiodes velifer (Rafinesque, 1820). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1022838 on 2026-01-19
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Catostomus velifer Rafinesque, 1820) Rafinesque, C. S. (1820). Fishes of the Ohio River. [Ichthyologia Ohiensis, Part 6]. <em>Western Review and Miscellaneous Magazine: a monthly publ., devoted to literature and science, Lexington, KY.</em> v. 2 (no. 5): 299-307. [details]
original description (of Carpiodes difformis Cope, 1870) Cope, E. D. (1870). A partial synopsis of the fishes of the fresh waters of North Carolina. <em>Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.</em> 11 (84): 448-495. [Reissued as second edition in 1877 with notes added.]. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
original description (of Carpiodes difformis Cope, 1870) Cope, E. D. (1870). A partial synopsis of the fishes of the fresh waters of North Carolina. <em>Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.</em> 11 (84): 448-495. [Reissued as second edition in 1877 with notes added.]. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [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] 
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carpiodes velifer)
To Fishbase (from synonym Catostomus velifer Rafinesque, 1820)
To FishBase
To GenBank (34 nucleotides; 35 proteins) (from synonym Catostomus velifer Rafinesque, 1820)
To GenBank (34 nucleotides; 35 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carpiodes velifer)
To Fishbase (from synonym Catostomus velifer Rafinesque, 1820)
To FishBase
To GenBank (34 nucleotides; 35 proteins) (from synonym Catostomus velifer Rafinesque, 1820)
To GenBank (34 nucleotides; 35 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
