WoRMS taxon details
Euristhmus lepturus (Günther, 1864)
280754 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:280754)
accepted
Species
Cnidoglanis lepturus Günther, 1864 · unaccepted
Eurithmus lepturus (Günther, 1864) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Plotosus elongatus Castelnau, 1878 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Cnidoglanis lepturus Günther, 1864) Günther, A. (1864). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Siluridae, Characinidae, Haplochitonidae, Sternoptychidae, Scopelidae, Stomiatidae in the collection of the British Museum. v. 5: i-xxii + 1-455. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Euristhmus lepturus (Günther, 1864). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=280754 on 2026-07-09
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Plotosus elongatus Castelnau, 1878) Castelnau, F. L. (1878). Australian fishes. New or little known species. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> v. 2 (pt 3): 225-248, Pls. 2-3.
page(s): 237 [details]
original description (of Cnidoglanis lepturus Günther, 1864) Günther, A. (1864). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Siluridae, Characinidae, Haplochitonidae, Sternoptychidae, Scopelidae, Stomiatidae in the collection of the British Museum. v. 5: i-xxii + 1-455. [details]
page(s): 237 [details]
original description (of Cnidoglanis lepturus Günther, 1864) Günther, A. (1864). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Siluridae, Characinidae, Haplochitonidae, Sternoptychidae, Scopelidae, Stomiatidae in the collection of the British Museum. v. 5: i-xxii + 1-455. [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 Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Plotosus elongatus Castelnau, 1878)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Cnidoglanis lepturus Günther, 1864)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Euristhmus lepturus)
To FishBase (from synonym Plotosus elongatus Castelnau, 1878)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Cnidoglanis lepturus Günther, 1864)
To FishBase (from synonym Eurithmus lepturus (Günther, 1864))
To Genbank (from synonym Cnidoglanis lepturus Günther, 1864)
To Genbank
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To NHMUK collection (Cnidoglanis lepturus Günther, 1864; PARALECTOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:2579766) (from synonym Cnidoglanis lepturus Günther, 1864)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Euristhmus lepturus RAD115491-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Euristhmus lepturus RAD115491-002)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Euristhmus lepturus RAD115512-001) (from synonym Cnidoglanis lepturus Günther, 1864)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Euristhmus lepturus RAD115512-002) (from synonym Cnidoglanis lepturus Günther, 1864)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Plotosus elongatus Castelnau, 1878)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Cnidoglanis lepturus Günther, 1864)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Euristhmus lepturus)
To FishBase (from synonym Plotosus elongatus Castelnau, 1878)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Cnidoglanis lepturus Günther, 1864)
To FishBase (from synonym Eurithmus lepturus (Günther, 1864))
To Genbank (from synonym Cnidoglanis lepturus Günther, 1864)
To Genbank
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To NHMUK collection (Cnidoglanis lepturus Günther, 1864; PARALECTOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:2579766) (from synonym Cnidoglanis lepturus Günther, 1864)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Euristhmus lepturus RAD115491-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Euristhmus lepturus RAD115491-002)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Euristhmus lepturus RAD115512-001) (from synonym Cnidoglanis lepturus Günther, 1864)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Euristhmus lepturus RAD115512-002) (from synonym Cnidoglanis lepturus Günther, 1864)
To ITIS
