WoRMS taxon details
Pellonula vorax Günther, 1868
282187 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:282187)
accepted
Species
Pellonula stanleyana Regan, 1917 · unaccepted
Pollonula vorax Günther, 1868 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
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. Pellonula vorax Günther, 1868. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=282187 on 2026-07-10
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Nomenclature
original description
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]
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 (5 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (35 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pellonula vorax)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Pellonula stanleyana Regan, 1917)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 27 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Pellonula vorax RAD100535-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Pellonula vorax RAD100535-001)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (35 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pellonula vorax)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Pellonula stanleyana Regan, 1917)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 27 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Pellonula vorax RAD100535-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Pellonula vorax RAD100535-001)
To ITIS
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