WoRMS taxon details
Hyperlophus vittatus (Castelnau, 1875)
281096 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:281096)
accepted
Species
Clupea spratellides Ogilby, 1892 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Clupea sprattellides Ogilby, 1892 · unaccepted
Hyperlophus copii Ogilby, 1897 · unaccepted
Meletta vittata Castelnau, 1875 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Meletta vittata Castelnau, 1875) Castelnau, F. L. (1875). Researches on the fishes of Australia.Official Record, containing Introduction, Catalogues, Official Awards of the Commissioners, Report and Recommendations of the Experts, and Essays and Statistics on the Social and Economic Resources of the Colony of Victoria. <em>Intercolonial Exhibition Essays.</em> Part VII (II): 1-52.
page(s): 46 [details]
page(s): 46 [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Hyperlophus vittatus (Castelnau, 1875). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=281096 on 2026-07-10
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Clupea sprattellides Ogilby, 1892) Ogilby, J. D. (1892). On some undescribed reptiles and fishes from Australia. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> v. 2 (no. 2): 23-26., available online at https://doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.2.1892.1183 [details]
original description (of Hyperlophus copii Ogilby, 1897) Ogilby, J. D. (1897). New genera and species of Australian fishes. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> v. 22 (pt 1): 62-95. [details]
original description (of Meletta vittata Castelnau, 1875) Castelnau, F. L. (1875). Researches on the fishes of Australia.Official Record, containing Introduction, Catalogues, Official Awards of the Commissioners, Report and Recommendations of the Experts, and Essays and Statistics on the Social and Economic Resources of the Colony of Victoria. <em>Intercolonial Exhibition Essays.</em> Part VII (II): 1-52.
page(s): 46 [details]
original description (of Hyperlophus copii Ogilby, 1897) Ogilby, J. D. (1897). New genera and species of Australian fishes. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> v. 22 (pt 1): 62-95. [details]
original description (of Meletta vittata Castelnau, 1875) Castelnau, F. L. (1875). Researches on the fishes of Australia.Official Record, containing Introduction, Catalogues, Official Awards of the Commissioners, Report and Recommendations of the Experts, and Essays and Statistics on the Social and Economic Resources of the Colony of Victoria. <em>Intercolonial Exhibition Essays.</em> Part VII (II): 1-52.
page(s): 46 [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 (18 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Clupea sprattellides Ogilby, 1892)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Clupea spratellides Ogilby, 1892)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Hyperlophus copii Ogilby, 1897)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Meletta vittata Castelnau, 1875)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hyperlophus vittatus)
To FishBase (from synonym Hyperlophus copii Ogilby, 1897)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Meletta vittata Castelnau, 1875)
To FishBase (from synonym Clupea sprattellides Ogilby, 1892)
To FishBase (from synonym Clupea spratellides Ogilby, 1892)
To GenBank (18 nucleotides; 33 proteins) (from synonym Meletta vittata Castelnau, 1875)
To GenBank (18 nucleotides; 33 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Clupea sprattellides Ogilby, 1892)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Clupea spratellides Ogilby, 1892)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Hyperlophus copii Ogilby, 1897)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Meletta vittata Castelnau, 1875)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hyperlophus vittatus)
To FishBase (from synonym Hyperlophus copii Ogilby, 1897)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Meletta vittata Castelnau, 1875)
To FishBase (from synonym Clupea sprattellides Ogilby, 1892)
To FishBase (from synonym Clupea spratellides Ogilby, 1892)
To GenBank (18 nucleotides; 33 proteins) (from synonym Meletta vittata Castelnau, 1875)
To GenBank (18 nucleotides; 33 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
