WoRMS taxon details
Leiocottus hirundo Girard, 1856
281282 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:281282)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Girard, C. F. (1856). Contributions to the ichthyology of the western coast of the United States, from specimens in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 8: 131-137., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/34406 [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Leiocottus hirundo Girard, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=281282 on 2026-07-10
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Nomenclature
original description
Girard, C. F. (1856). Contributions to the ichthyology of the western coast of the United States, from specimens in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 8: 131-137., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/34406 [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 (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Leiocottus hirundo)
To FishBase
To GenBank (23 nucleotides; 19 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Leiocottus hirundo P14649 illustration)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Leiocottus hirundo)
To FishBase
To GenBank (23 nucleotides; 19 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Leiocottus hirundo P14649 illustration)
To ITIS
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