WoRMS taxon details
Lycengraulis batesii (Günther, 1868)
281445 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:281445)
accepted
Species
Engraulis batesii Günther, 1868 · unaccepted
Engraulis iquitensis Nakashima, 1941 · unaccepted (synonym)
Lycengraulis barbouri Hildebrand, 1943 · unaccepted
Lycengraulis batesi (Günther, 1868) · unaccepted (misspelling)
(of Engraulis batesii Günther, 1868) Günther, A. (1868). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi fish containing the families Heteropygii, Cyprinidae, Gonorhynchidae, Hyodontidae, Osteoglossidae, Clupeidae,... [thru]... Halosauridae, in the collection of the British Museum. <em>Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum.</em> v. 7: i-xx + 1-512. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Lycengraulis batesii (Günther, 1868). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=281445 on 2026-07-10
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Engraulis batesii Günther, 1868) Günther, A. (1868). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi fish containing the families Heteropygii, Cyprinidae, Gonorhynchidae, Hyodontidae, Osteoglossidae, Clupeidae,... [thru]... Halosauridae, in the collection of the British Museum. <em>Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum.</em> v. 7: i-xx + 1-512. [details]
original description (of Engraulis iquitensis Nakashima, 1941) Nakashima, S. (1941). Algunos peces del Orient peruano. <em>Boletín del Museo de Historia Natural "Javier Prado".</em> 5(16): 61-78. [details]
original description (of Lycengraulis barbouri Hildebrand, 1943) Hildebrand, S. F. (1943). A review of the American anchovies (family Engraulidae). <em>Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection Yale University.</em> 8 (2): 1-165. [details]
original description (of Engraulis iquitensis Nakashima, 1941) Nakashima, S. (1941). Algunos peces del Orient peruano. <em>Boletín del Museo de Historia Natural "Javier Prado".</em> 5(16): 61-78. [details]
original description (of Lycengraulis barbouri Hildebrand, 1943) Hildebrand, S. F. (1943). A review of the American anchovies (family Engraulidae). <em>Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection Yale University.</em> 8 (2): 1-165. [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 (12 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Engraulis iquitensis Nakashima, 1941)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Engraulis batesii Günther, 1868)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Lycengraulis barbouri Hildebrand, 1943)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lycengraulis batesii)
To Fishbase (from synonym Engraulis batesii Günther, 1868)
To Fishbase (from synonym Lycengraulis barbouri Hildebrand, 1943)
To Fishbase (from synonym Lycengraulis batesi (Günther, 1868))
To Fishbase (from synonym Engraulis iquitensis Nakashima, 1941)
To GenBank (22 nucleotides; 19 proteins) (from synonym Engraulis batesii Günther, 1868)
To GenBank (22 nucleotides; 19 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Engraulis batesii Günther, 1868; SYNTYPE(S); NHMUK:ecatalogue:2582608) (from synonym Engraulis batesii Günther, 1868)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Engraulis iquitensis Nakashima, 1941)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Engraulis batesii Günther, 1868)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Lycengraulis barbouri Hildebrand, 1943)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lycengraulis batesii)
To Fishbase (from synonym Engraulis batesii Günther, 1868)
To Fishbase (from synonym Lycengraulis barbouri Hildebrand, 1943)
To Fishbase (from synonym Lycengraulis batesi (Günther, 1868))
To Fishbase (from synonym Engraulis iquitensis Nakashima, 1941)
To GenBank (22 nucleotides; 19 proteins) (from synonym Engraulis batesii Günther, 1868)
To GenBank (22 nucleotides; 19 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Engraulis batesii Günther, 1868; SYNTYPE(S); NHMUK:ecatalogue:2582608) (from synonym Engraulis batesii Günther, 1868)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Hosted externally, from synonym
