WoRMS

WoRMS taxon details

Croilia mossambica Smith, 1955

AphiaID

219424 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:219424)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Type taxon of

Croilia Smith, 1955

Parent

Croilia Smith, 1955

Original name

Croilia mossambica Smith, 1955

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Smith, J. L. B. (1955). An interesting new gobiiform fish from South Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 12). 8 (86) (art. 14): 106-110., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222935508651834 [details]

Descriptive notes

Description Occasionally intertidal. Occurs in most inland body waters (Ref. 4343).

Description Occasionally intertidal. Occurs in most inland body waters (Ref. 4343). [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Croilia mossambica Smith, 1955. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=219424 on 2026-07-09

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-02-24 18:26:33Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2008-01-15 17:27:08Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Smith, J. L. B. (1955). An interesting new gobiiform fish from South Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 12). 8 (86) (art. 14): 106-110., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222935508651834 [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. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]