WoRMS taxon details
Ophiodon elongatus Girard, 1854
240745 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:240745)
accepted
Species
Oplopoma pantherina Girard, 1856 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Girard, C. F. (1854). Descriptions of new fishes, collected by Dr. A. L. Heermann, naturalist attached to the survey of the Pacific railroad route, under Lieut. R. S. Williamson, U. S. A. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 7: 129-140.
page(s): 133 [details]
page(s): 133 [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Ophiodon elongatus Girard, 1854. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=240745 on 2026-02-04
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Nomenclature
original description
Girard, C. F. (1854). Descriptions of new fishes, collected by Dr. A. L. Heermann, naturalist attached to the survey of the Pacific railroad route, under Lieut. R. S. Williamson, U. S. A. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 7: 129-140.
page(s): 133 [details]
original description (of Oplopoma pantherina Girard, 1856) Girard, C. F. (1856). Contributions to the ichthyology of the western coast of the United States, from specimens in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 8: 131-137., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/34406 [details]
basis of record Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
page(s): 133 [details]
original description (of Oplopoma pantherina Girard, 1856) Girard, C. F. (1856). Contributions to the ichthyology of the western coast of the United States, from specimens in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 8: 131-137., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/34406 [details]
basis of record Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [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 (43 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Oplopoma pantherina Girard, 1856)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (130 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ophiodon elongatus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Oplopoma pantherina Girard, 1856)
To FishSounds
To GenBank (7479 nucleotides; 67 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Ophiodon elongatus P08894 illustration)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Oplopoma pantherina Girard, 1856)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (130 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ophiodon elongatus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Oplopoma pantherina Girard, 1856)
To FishSounds
To GenBank (7479 nucleotides; 67 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Ophiodon elongatus P08894 illustration)
To ITIS
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