WoRMS taxon details
Mordacia lapicida (Gray, 1851)
281594 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:281594)
accepted
Species
Caragola lapicida Gray, 1851 · unaccepted
Petromyzon acutidens Philippi, 1865 · unaccepted (synonym)
Petromyzon anwandteri Philippi, 1863 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Caragola lapicida Gray, 1851) Gray, J. E. (1851). List of the specimens of fish in the collection of the British Museum. Part I.--Chondropterygii. <em>London.</em> i-x + 1-160, Pls. 1-2. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Mordacia lapicida (Gray, 1851). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=281594 on 2026-07-10
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Petromyzon acutidens Philippi, 1865) Philippi, R. A. (1865). Ueber die chilenische Anguilla. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 31(1): 107-109., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7202665#page/115/mode/1up [details]
original description (of Caragola lapicida Gray, 1851) Gray, J. E. (1851). List of the specimens of fish in the collection of the British Museum. Part I.--Chondropterygii. <em>London.</em> i-x + 1-160, Pls. 1-2. [details]
original description (of Petromyzon anwandteri Philippi, 1863) Philippi, R. A. (1863). Kurze Nachricht über ein paar Chilenische Fische. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 29(1): 207-212, Pl. 10., available online at https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Archiv-Naturgeschichte_29-1_0207-0212.pdf [details]
original description (of Caragola lapicida Gray, 1851) Gray, J. E. (1851). List of the specimens of fish in the collection of the British Museum. Part I.--Chondropterygii. <em>London.</em> i-x + 1-160, Pls. 1-2. [details]
original description (of Petromyzon anwandteri Philippi, 1863) Philippi, R. A. (1863). Kurze Nachricht über ein paar Chilenische Fische. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 29(1): 207-212, Pl. 10., available online at https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Archiv-Naturgeschichte_29-1_0207-0212.pdf [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 (10 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Petromyzon acutidens Philippi, 1865)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications) (from synonym Caragola lapicida Gray, 1851)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Mordacia lapicida)
To FishBase (from synonym Caragola lapicida Gray, 1851)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Petromyzon anwandteri Philippi, 1863)
To Fishbase (from synonym Petromyzon anwandteri Philippi, 1863)
To FishBase (from synonym Petromyzon acutidens Philippi, 1865)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 4 proteins) (from synonym Caragola lapicida Gray, 1851)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Vulnerable)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Petromyzon acutidens Philippi, 1865)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications) (from synonym Caragola lapicida Gray, 1851)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Mordacia lapicida)
To FishBase (from synonym Caragola lapicida Gray, 1851)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Petromyzon anwandteri Philippi, 1863)
To Fishbase (from synonym Petromyzon anwandteri Philippi, 1863)
To FishBase (from synonym Petromyzon acutidens Philippi, 1865)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 4 proteins) (from synonym Caragola lapicida Gray, 1851)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Vulnerable)
To ITIS
