WoRMS taxon details
Meuschenia trachylepis (Günther, 1870)
277615 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:277615)
accepted
Species
Monacanthus trachylepis Günther, 1870 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Monacanthus trachylepis Günther, 1870) Günther, A. (1870). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, ...[thru] ... Leptocardii, in the British Museum. v. 8: i-xxv + 1-549. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Meuschenia trachylepis (Günther, 1870). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=277615 on 2026-01-06
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Monacanthus trachylepis Günther, 1870) Günther, A. (1870). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, ...[thru] ... Leptocardii, in the British Museum. v. 8: i-xxv + 1-549. [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
To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Monacanthus trachylepis Günther, 1870)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Meuschenia trachylepis)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Monacanthus trachylepis Günther, 1870)
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Monacanthus trachylepis Günther, 1870)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Monacanthus trachylepis Günther, 1870)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Meuschenia trachylepis)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Monacanthus trachylepis Günther, 1870)
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Monacanthus trachylepis Günther, 1870)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
