WoRMS taxon details
Elacatinus puncticulatus (Ginsburg, 1938)
280620 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:280620)
accepted
Species
Elacatinus punticulatus (Ginsburg, 1938) · unaccepted (misspelling: specific epithet)
Gobiosoma puncticulatum Ginsburg, 1938 · unaccepted
Gobiosoma rubrifrons Fowler, 1944 · unaccepted
Tigrigobius puncticulatus (Ginsburg, 1938) · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Gobiosoma puncticulatum Ginsburg, 1938) Ginsburg, I. (1938). Two new gobioid fishes of the genus Gobiosoma from Lower California. <em>Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin.</em> v. 1 (no. 2): 57-59. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Elacatinus puncticulatus (Ginsburg, 1938). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=280620 on 2025-09-05
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Gobiosoma puncticulatum Ginsburg, 1938) Ginsburg, I. (1938). Two new gobioid fishes of the genus Gobiosoma from Lower California. <em>Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin.</em> v. 1 (no. 2): 57-59. [details]
original description (of Gobiosoma rubrifrons Fowler, 1944) Fowler, H. W. (1944). Results of the fifth George Vanderbilt expedition (1941) (Bahamas, Caribbean Sea, Panama, Galápagos Archipelago and Mexican Pacific islands). The Fishes. <em>Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 6: 57-529, Pls. 1-20. [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 Gobiosoma rubrifrons Fowler, 1944) Fowler, H. W. (1944). Results of the fifth George Vanderbilt expedition (1941) (Bahamas, Caribbean Sea, Panama, Galápagos Archipelago and Mexican Pacific islands). The Fishes. <em>Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 6: 57-529, Pls. 1-20. [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
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., 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 (11 barcodes) (from synonym Tigrigobius puncticulatus (Ginsburg, 1938))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Elacatinus puncticulatus)
To FishBase (from synonym Gobiosoma puncticulatum Ginsburg, 1938)
To FishBase (from synonym Elacatinus punticulatus (Ginsburg, 1938))
To FishBase (from synonym Gobiosoma rubrifrons Fowler, 1944)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Elacatinus puncticulatus, Panama, by Allen, G.R.)
To GenBank (369 nucleotides; 364 proteins)
To GenBank (369 nucleotides; 364 proteins) (from synonym Gobiosoma puncticulatum Ginsburg, 1938)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Elacatinus puncticulatus)
To FishBase (from synonym Gobiosoma puncticulatum Ginsburg, 1938)
To FishBase (from synonym Elacatinus punticulatus (Ginsburg, 1938))
To FishBase (from synonym Gobiosoma rubrifrons Fowler, 1944)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Elacatinus puncticulatus, Panama, by Allen, G.R.)
To GenBank (369 nucleotides; 364 proteins)
To GenBank (369 nucleotides; 364 proteins) (from synonym Gobiosoma puncticulatum Ginsburg, 1938)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
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