WoRMS taxon details
Leuresthes tenuis (Ayres, 1860)
281344 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:281344)
accepted
Species
Atherinopsis tenuis Ayres, 1860 · unaccepted (synonym)
Leuresthes crameri Jordan & Evermann, 1896 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Atherinopsis tenuis Ayres, 1860) Ayres, W. O. (1860). [Descriptions of fishes.]. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 1).</em> v. 2: 73-77. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Leuresthes tenuis (Ayres, 1860). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=281344 on 2026-07-10
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Atherinopsis tenuis Ayres, 1860) Ayres, W. O. (1860). [Descriptions of fishes.]. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 1).</em> v. 2: 73-77. [details]
original description (of Leuresthes crameri Jordan & Evermann, 1896) Jordan, D. S. ; Evermann, B. W. (1896). The fishes of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama. Part I. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> No. 47: i-lx + 1-1240., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.46755 [details]
original description (of Leuresthes crameri Jordan & Evermann, 1896) Jordan, D. S. ; Evermann, B. W. (1896). The fishes of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama. Part I. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> No. 47: i-lx + 1-1240., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.46755 [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 (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Leuresthes crameri Jordan & Evermann, 1896)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (63 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Atherinopsis tenuis Ayres, 1860)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Leuresthes tenuis)
To FishBase (from synonym Atherinopsis tenuis Ayres, 1860)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Leuresthes crameri Jordan & Evermann, 1896)
To GenBank (752 nucleotides; 37 proteins) (from synonym Atherinopsis tenuis Ayres, 1860)
To GenBank (752 nucleotides; 37 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Leuresthes crameri Jordan & Evermann, 1896)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (63 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Atherinopsis tenuis Ayres, 1860)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Leuresthes tenuis)
To FishBase (from synonym Atherinopsis tenuis Ayres, 1860)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Leuresthes crameri Jordan & Evermann, 1896)
To GenBank (752 nucleotides; 37 proteins) (from synonym Atherinopsis tenuis Ayres, 1860)
To GenBank (752 nucleotides; 37 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To ITIS