WoRMS taxon details
Lepidotrigla faurei Gilchrist & Thompson, 1914
218123 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218123)
accepted
Species
Lepidotrigla faueri Gilchrist & Thompson, 1914 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Lepidotrigla natalensis Gilchrist & Thompson, 1914 · unaccepted
Lepidotrigla stigmapteron Fowler, 1934 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Gilchrist, J. D. F.; Thompson W. W. (1914). Descriptions of fishes from the coast of Natal (Part IV.). <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> v. 13 (pt 3) (art. 5): 65-95. [details]
Description Found on the continental and insular shelves on sandy or muddy bottoms.
Description Found on the continental and insular shelves on sandy or muddy bottoms. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Lepidotrigla faurei Gilchrist & Thompson, 1914. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=218123 on 2026-07-10
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Nomenclature
original description
Gilchrist, J. D. F.; Thompson W. W. (1914). Descriptions of fishes from the coast of Natal (Part IV.). <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> v. 13 (pt 3) (art. 5): 65-95. [details]
original description (of Lepidotrigla stigmapteron Fowler, 1934) Fowler, H. W. (1934). Fishes obtained by Mr. H. W. Bell-Marley chiefly in Natal and Zululand in 1929 to 1932. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 86: 405-514. [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 Lepidotrigla stigmapteron Fowler, 1934) Fowler, H. W. (1934). Fishes obtained by Mr. H. W. Bell-Marley chiefly in Natal and Zululand in 1929 to 1932. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 86: 405-514. [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
Unreviewed
Description Found on the continental and insular shelves on sandy or muddy bottoms. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | prickly gurnard | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (14 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Lepidotrigla natalensis Gilchrist & Thompson, 1914)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Lepidotrigla stigmapteron Fowler, 1934)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lepidotrigla faurei)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Lepidotrigla natalensis Gilchrist & Thompson, 1914)
To FishBase (from synonym Lepidotrigla faueri Gilchrist & Thompson, 1914)
To FishBase (from synonym Lepidotrigla stigmapteron Fowler, 1934)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Lepidotrigla natalensis Gilchrist & Thompson, 1914)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Lepidotrigla stigmapteron Fowler, 1934)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lepidotrigla faurei)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Lepidotrigla natalensis Gilchrist & Thompson, 1914)
To FishBase (from synonym Lepidotrigla faueri Gilchrist & Thompson, 1914)
To FishBase (from synonym Lepidotrigla stigmapteron Fowler, 1934)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS