WoRMS taxon details
Eviota distigma Jordan & Seale, 1906
219456 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:219456)
accepted
Species
Eviota stigmapteron Smith, 1958 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Jordan, D. S.; Seale, A. (1906). The fishes of Samoa. Description of the species found in the archipelago, with a provisional check-list of the fishes of Oceania. <em>Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries.</em> . 25 (for 1905): 173-455 + index 457-488, Pls. 33-53. [details]
Distribution Recorded from the Red Sea, the Maldives, and from eastern Indonesia (Nusa Penida and west
Papua), north to Japan (Ryukyu...
Papua), north to Japan (Ryukyu...
Distribution Recorded from the Red Sea, the Maldives, and from eastern Indonesia (Nusa Penida and west
Papua), north to Japan (Ryukyu and Ogasawara Islands), east through Micronesia to he Line Islands and across
Polynesia (eastward to Pitcairn Islands), and south to Australia (west coast and southern Great Barrier Reef). In
Fiji, this species was rarely taken at scattered locations mostly around Viti Levu, Vanua Levu, Great Astrolabe
Reef, and the Yasawa Group, usually from protected waters such as patch reefs behind a barrier reef. [details]
Papua), north to Japan (Ryukyu and Ogasawara Islands), east through Micronesia to he Line Islands and across
Polynesia (eastward to Pitcairn Islands), and south to Australia (west coast and southern Great Barrier Reef). In
Fiji, this species was rarely taken at scattered locations mostly around Viti Levu, Vanua Levu, Great Astrolabe
Reef, and the Yasawa Group, usually from protected waters such as patch reefs behind a barrier reef. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Eviota distigma Jordan & Seale, 1906. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=219456 on 2025-07-22
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Nomenclature
original description
Jordan, D. S.; Seale, A. (1906). The fishes of Samoa. Description of the species found in the archipelago, with a provisional check-list of the fishes of Oceania. <em>Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries.</em> . 25 (for 1905): 173-455 + index 457-488, Pls. 33-53. [details]
original description (of Eviota stigmapteron Smith, 1958) Smith, J. L. B. (1958). The fishes of the family Eleotridae in the western Indian Ocean. <em>Ichthyological Bulletin, Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University.</em> 11: 137-163, Pls. 1-3. [details]
basis of record Smith, J. L. B.; Smith, M. M. (1963). The fishes of Seychelles. 1st edition. <em>Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown.</em> i-viii + 1-215, Pls. 1-98. [details]
original description (of Eviota stigmapteron Smith, 1958) Smith, J. L. B. (1958). The fishes of the family Eleotridae in the western Indian Ocean. <em>Ichthyological Bulletin, Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University.</em> 11: 137-163, Pls. 1-3. [details]
basis of record Smith, J. L. B.; Smith, M. M. (1963). The fishes of Seychelles. 1st edition. <em>Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown.</em> i-viii + 1-215, Pls. 1-98. [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] 
Identification resource
identification resource
Greenfield, D. W.; Randall, J. E. (2016). A review of the dwarfgobies of Fiji, including descriptions of five new species (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Eviota). <em>Zenodo.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.48268 [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 [request]
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]
additional source Gon, O. (1996). Fifty years of fish systematics at the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology. <em>Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr.</em> 51: 45-78. [details]
[request]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]
additional source Gon, O. (1996). Fifty years of fish systematics at the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology. <em>Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr.</em> 51: 45-78. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Distribution Recorded from the Red Sea, the Maldives, and from eastern Indonesia (Nusa Penida and westPapua), north to Japan (Ryukyu and Ogasawara Islands), east through Micronesia to he Line Islands and across
Polynesia (eastward to Pitcairn Islands), and south to Australia (west coast and southern Great Barrier Reef). In
Fiji, this species was rarely taken at scattered locations mostly around Viti Levu, Vanua Levu, Great Astrolabe
Reef, and the Yasawa Group, usually from protected waters such as patch reefs behind a barrier reef. [details]
To Barcode of Life (12 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Eviota distigma)
To FishBase (from synonym Eviota stigmapteron Smith, 1958)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Eviota distigma, Egypt, by Herler, J.)
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 8 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Eviota distigma P12620 illustration)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Eviota distigma P12620 illustration)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Eviota distigma)
To FishBase (from synonym Eviota stigmapteron Smith, 1958)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Eviota distigma, Egypt, by Herler, J.)
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 8 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Eviota distigma P12620 illustration)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Eviota distigma P12620 illustration)
To ITIS
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