WoRMS taxon details
Chilara taylori (Girard, 1858)
280146 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:280146)
accepted
Species
Ophidion novaculum Harry, 1951 · unaccepted
Ophidion taylori Girard, 1858 · unaccepted
Otophidium taylori (Girard, 1858) · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Ophidion taylori Girard, 1858) Girard, C. F. (1858). Fishes. <em>In: General report upon zoology of the several Pacific railroad routes, 1857. In: Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, v. 10. Beverley Tucker, Washington, D.C.</em> Pp. i-xiv, 1-400, Pls. 7-8, 13-14, 17-18, 22c, 26, 29-30, 34, 37, 40-41, 48, 53, 59, 61, 64-65, 71. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Chilara taylori (Girard, 1858). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=280146 on 2025-12-23
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Ophidion novaculum Harry, 1951) Harry, R. R. (1951). A new cusk-eel of the genus Ophidion from California with notes on the genus. <em>Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin.</em> v. 4 (no. 1): 30-35. [details]
original description (of Ophidion taylori Girard, 1858) Girard, C. F. (1858). Fishes. <em>In: General report upon zoology of the several Pacific railroad routes, 1857. In: Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, v. 10. Beverley Tucker, Washington, D.C.</em> Pp. i-xiv, 1-400, Pls. 7-8, 13-14, 17-18, 22c, 26, 29-30, 34, 37, 40-41, 48, 53, 59, 61, 64-65, 71. [details]
original description (of Ophidion taylori Girard, 1858) Girard, C. F. (1858). Fishes. <em>In: General report upon zoology of the several Pacific railroad routes, 1857. In: Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, v. 10. Beverley Tucker, Washington, D.C.</em> Pp. i-xiv, 1-400, Pls. 7-8, 13-14, 17-18, 22c, 26, 29-30, 34, 37, 40-41, 48, 53, 59, 61, 64-65, 71. [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). (2025). 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
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | spotted cusk-eel | [details] |
| Russian | Пятнистый ошибень | [details] |
| Spanish | congriperla moteada | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (13 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Ophidion novaculum Harry, 1951)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (25 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Ophidion taylori Girard, 1858)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Chilara taylori)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Ophidion novaculum Harry, 1951)
To FishBase (from synonym Ophidion taylori Girard, 1858)
To Fishbase (from synonym Otophidium taylori (Girard, 1858))
To GenBank (33 nucleotides; 20 proteins) (from synonym Ophidion taylori Girard, 1858)
To GenBank (33 nucleotides; 20 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Ophidion novaculum Harry, 1951)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (25 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Ophidion taylori Girard, 1858)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Chilara taylori)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Ophidion novaculum Harry, 1951)
To FishBase (from synonym Ophidion taylori Girard, 1858)
To Fishbase (from synonym Otophidium taylori (Girard, 1858))
To GenBank (33 nucleotides; 20 proteins) (from synonym Ophidion taylori Girard, 1858)
To GenBank (33 nucleotides; 20 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
