WoRMS taxon details
Choeroichthys sculptus (Günther, 1870)
217988 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217988)
accepted
Species
Doryichthys sculptus Günther, 1870 · unaccepted
Doryrhamphus macgregori Jordan & Richardson, 1908 · unaccepted
Microphis ocellatus (Snyder, 1909) · unaccepted (Ambiguous synonym: not Duncker, 1910)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Doryichthys sculptus Günther, 1870) Günther, A. (1870). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, ...[thru] ... Leptocardii, in the British Museum. v. 8: i-xxv + 1-549. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Choeroichthys sculptus (Günther, 1870). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217988 on 2025-09-25
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Doryrhamphus macgregori Jordan & Richardson, 1908) Jordan, D. S.; Richardson R. E. (1908). Fishes from islands of the Philippine Archipelago. <em>Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries.</em> v. 27(Doc. 640) (for 1907): 233-287. [details]
original description (of Doryichthys sculptus Günther, 1870) Günther, A. (1870). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, ...[thru] ... Leptocardii, in the British Museum. v. 8: i-xxv + 1-549. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
original description (of Doryichthys sculptus Günther, 1870) Günther, A. (1870). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, ...[thru] ... Leptocardii, in the British Museum. v. 8: i-xxv + 1-549. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., 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] 
Other
context source (RAS)
Australian Antarctic Data Centre. , available online at https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/ [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) (from synonym Doryichthys sculptus Günther, 1870)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Doryrhamphus macgregori Jordan & Richardson, 1908)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Choeroichthys sculptus)
To FishBase (from synonym Doryichthys sculptus Günther, 1870)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Doryrhamphus macgregori Jordan & Richardson, 1908)
To FishBase (from synonym Microphis ocellatus (Snyder, 1909))
To GenBank (18 nucleotides; 11 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient) (from synonym Microphis ocellatus (Snyder, 1909))
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Choeroichthys sculptus FIN034455 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Choeroichthys sculptus FIN034455B Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) (from synonym Doryichthys sculptus Günther, 1870)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Doryrhamphus macgregori Jordan & Richardson, 1908)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Choeroichthys sculptus)
To FishBase (from synonym Doryichthys sculptus Günther, 1870)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Doryrhamphus macgregori Jordan & Richardson, 1908)
To FishBase (from synonym Microphis ocellatus (Snyder, 1909))
To GenBank (18 nucleotides; 11 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient) (from synonym Microphis ocellatus (Snyder, 1909))
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Choeroichthys sculptus FIN034455 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Choeroichthys sculptus FIN034455B Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
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