WoRMS taxon details
Ecsenius pulcher (Murray, 1887)
277680 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:277680)
accepted
Species
Salarias anomalus Regan, 1905 · unaccepted
Salarias phantasticus Boulenger, 1897 · unaccepted
Salarias pulcher Murray, 1887 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Salarias pulcher Murray, 1887) Murray, J. A. (1887). New species of fish from Kurrachee and the Persian Gulf. <em>Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.</em> v. 2 (pt 1): 47-49. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Ecsenius pulcher (Murray, 1887). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=277680 on 2026-07-10
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Salarias phantasticus Boulenger, 1897) Boulenger, G. A. (1897). Descriptions of new fishes from the Mekran coast, Persia. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 6).</em> v. 20 (no. 119) (art. 49): 420-422., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939708680655
page(s): 422 [details]
original description (of Salarias pulcher Murray, 1887) Murray, J. A. (1887). New species of fish from Kurrachee and the Persian Gulf. <em>Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.</em> v. 2 (pt 1): 47-49. [details]
page(s): 422 [details]
original description (of Salarias pulcher Murray, 1887) Murray, J. A. (1887). New species of fish from Kurrachee and the Persian Gulf. <em>Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.</em> v. 2 (pt 1): 47-49. [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 (7 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Salarias pulcher Murray, 1887)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Salarias phantasticus Boulenger, 1897)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Salarias anomalus Regan, 1905)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ecsenius pulcher)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Salarias anomalus Regan, 1905)
To FishBase (from synonym Salarias pulcher Murray, 1887)
To FishBase (from synonym Salarias phantasticus Boulenger, 1897)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Salarias anomalus Regan, 1905)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 7 proteins) (from synonym Salarias pulcher Murray, 1887)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 7 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Salarias anomalus Regan, 1905; PARALECTOTYPES; NHMUK:ecatalogue:9180775) (from synonym Salarias anomalus Regan, 1905)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Ecsenius pulcher RAD121707-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Ecsenius pulcher RAD121763-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Salarias anomalus RAD121706-001) (from synonym Salarias anomalus Regan, 1905)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Salarias pulcher Murray, 1887)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Salarias phantasticus Boulenger, 1897)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Salarias anomalus Regan, 1905)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ecsenius pulcher)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Salarias anomalus Regan, 1905)
To FishBase (from synonym Salarias pulcher Murray, 1887)
To FishBase (from synonym Salarias phantasticus Boulenger, 1897)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Salarias anomalus Regan, 1905)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 7 proteins) (from synonym Salarias pulcher Murray, 1887)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 7 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Salarias anomalus Regan, 1905; PARALECTOTYPES; NHMUK:ecatalogue:9180775) (from synonym Salarias anomalus Regan, 1905)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Ecsenius pulcher RAD121707-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Ecsenius pulcher RAD121763-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Salarias anomalus RAD121706-001) (from synonym Salarias anomalus Regan, 1905)
To ITIS
