WoRMS taxon details
Grammistops ocellatus Schultz, 1953
218256 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218256)
accepted
Species
Grammistops ocellata Schultz, 1953 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Tulelepis canis Smith, 1954 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Schultz, L. P.; Herald, E. S.; Lachner, E. A.; Welander, A. D.; Woods, L. P. (1953). Fishes of the Marshall and Marianas islands. Vol. I. Families from Asymmetrontidae through Siganidae. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> No. 202, v. 1: i-xxxii + 1-685, Pls. 1-74., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.202.1 [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Grammistops ocellatus Schultz, 1953. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=218256 on 2026-07-09
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Nomenclature
original description
Schultz, L. P.; Herald, E. S.; Lachner, E. A.; Welander, A. D.; Woods, L. P. (1953). Fishes of the Marshall and Marianas islands. Vol. I. Families from Asymmetrontidae through Siganidae. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> No. 202, v. 1: i-xxxii + 1-685, Pls. 1-74., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.202.1 [details]
original description (of Tulelepis canis Smith, 1954) Smith, J. L. B. (1954). Aberrant serraniform fishes from East Africa. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (Series 12) v. 7 (no. 83) (art. 106): 861-872, Pl. 27., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222935408651802 [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]
original description (of Tulelepis canis Smith, 1954) Smith, J. L. B. (1954). Aberrant serraniform fishes from East Africa. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (Series 12) v. 7 (no. 83) (art. 106): 861-872, Pl. 27., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222935408651802 [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. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Present
Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ジャノメヌノサラシ | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Tulelepis canis Smith, 1954)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Grammistops ocellata Schultz, 1953)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Grammistops ocellatus)
To FishBase (from synonym Grammistops ocellata Schultz, 1953)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Tulelepis canis Smith, 1954)
To GenBank (22 nucleotides; 19 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Grammistops ocellatus P11666 illustration)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Grammistops ocellatus USNM 373678 photograph lateral view)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Tulelepis canis Smith, 1954)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Grammistops ocellata Schultz, 1953)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Grammistops ocellatus)
To FishBase (from synonym Grammistops ocellata Schultz, 1953)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Tulelepis canis Smith, 1954)
To GenBank (22 nucleotides; 19 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Grammistops ocellatus P11666 illustration)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Grammistops ocellatus USNM 373678 photograph lateral view)
To ITIS