WoRMS taxon details
Chelon bispinosus (Bowdich, 1825)
273634 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:273634)
accepted
Species
Liza nigrostrigatus (Günther, 1861) · unaccepted
Mugil bispinosus Bowdich, 1825 · unaccepted
Mugil nigrostrigatus Günther, 1861 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Mugil bispinosus Bowdich, 1825) Bowdich, S. L. (1825). Fishes of Madeira. <em>In: T. E. Bowdich. Excursions in Madeira and Porto Santo during the autumn of 1823, while on his third voyage to Africa. London. i-xii + 1-278, 11 pls. + 10 pls.</em> Pp. 121-125 and 233-238.
page(s): 236, Fig. 38 [details]
page(s): 236, Fig. 38 [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Chelon bispinosus (Bowdich, 1825). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=273634 on 2026-07-10
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Mugil bispinosus Bowdich, 1825) Bowdich, S. L. (1825). Fishes of Madeira. <em>In: T. E. Bowdich. Excursions in Madeira and Porto Santo during the autumn of 1823, while on his third voyage to Africa. London. i-xii + 1-278, 11 pls. + 10 pls.</em> Pp. 121-125 and 233-238.
page(s): 236, Fig. 38 [details]
original description (of Mugil nigrostrigatus 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]
page(s): 236, Fig. 38 [details]
original description (of Mugil nigrostrigatus 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]
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 (5 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Liza nigrostrigatus (Günther, 1861))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Mugil bispinosus Bowdich, 1825)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Mugil nigrostrigatus Günther, 1861)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Chelon bispinosus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Liza nigrostrigatus (Günther, 1861))
To FishBase (from synonym Mugil nigrostrigatus Günther, 1861)
To FishBase (from synonym Mugil bispinosus Bowdich, 1825)
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 7 proteins) (from synonym Mugil bispinosus Bowdich, 1825)
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 7 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Liza nigrostrigatus (Günther, 1861))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Mugil bispinosus Bowdich, 1825)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Mugil nigrostrigatus Günther, 1861)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Chelon bispinosus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Liza nigrostrigatus (Günther, 1861))
To FishBase (from synonym Mugil nigrostrigatus Günther, 1861)
To FishBase (from synonym Mugil bispinosus Bowdich, 1825)
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 7 proteins) (from synonym Mugil bispinosus Bowdich, 1825)
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 7 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
