WoRMS taxon details
Istiblennius meleagris (Valenciennes, 1836)
278381 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:278381)
accepted
Species
Blennius vittipinnis Castelnau, 1875 · unaccepted
Salarias meleagris Valenciennes, 1836 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Salarias meleagris Valenciennes, 1836) Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1836). Histoire naturelle des poissons. <em>Tome onzième. Livre treizième. De la famille des Mugiloïdes. Livre quatorzième. De la famille des Gobioïdes.</em> v. 11: i-xx + 1-506 + 2 pp., Pls. 307-343. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Istiblennius meleagris (Valenciennes, 1836). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=278381 on 2026-01-01
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Blennius vittipinnis 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): 25 [details]
original description (of Salarias meleagris Valenciennes, 1836) Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1836). Histoire naturelle des poissons. <em>Tome onzième. Livre treizième. De la famille des Mugiloïdes. Livre quatorzième. De la famille des Gobioïdes.</em> v. 11: i-xx + 1-506 + 2 pp., Pls. 307-343. [details]
page(s): 25 [details]
original description (of Salarias meleagris Valenciennes, 1836) Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1836). Histoire naturelle des poissons. <em>Tome onzième. Livre treizième. De la famille des Mugiloïdes. Livre quatorzième. De la famille des Gobioïdes.</em> v. 11: i-xx + 1-506 + 2 pp., Pls. 307-343. [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 (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present
Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
From regional or thematic species database
Introduced species vector dispersal Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin (Marine Region) Ships: general [details]
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (30 publications) (from synonym Salarias meleagris Valenciennes, 1836)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Istiblennius meleagris)
To FishBase (from synonym Blennius vittipinnis Castelnau, 1875)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Salarias meleagris Valenciennes, 1836)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Salarias meleagris Valenciennes, 1836)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Blennius vittipinnis Castelnau, 1875; SYNTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3111301) (from synonym Blennius vittipinnis Castelnau, 1875)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Istiblennius meleagris FIN027047 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Istiblennius meleagris FIN027048 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (30 publications) (from synonym Salarias meleagris Valenciennes, 1836)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Istiblennius meleagris)
To FishBase (from synonym Blennius vittipinnis Castelnau, 1875)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Salarias meleagris Valenciennes, 1836)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Salarias meleagris Valenciennes, 1836)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Blennius vittipinnis Castelnau, 1875; SYNTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3111301) (from synonym Blennius vittipinnis Castelnau, 1875)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Istiblennius meleagris FIN027047 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Istiblennius meleagris FIN027048 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS