WoRMS taxon details
Peprilus medius (Peters, 1869)
276561 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:276561)
accepted
Species
Palometa palometa (Jordan & Bollman, 1890) · unaccepted
Peprilus palometa (Jordan & Bollman, 1890) · unaccepted
Stromateus medius Peters, 1869 · unaccepted
Stromateus palometa Jordan & Bollman, 1890 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Stromateus medius Peters, 1869) Peters, W. (C. H.). (1869). Über neue oder weniger bekannte Fische des Berliner Zoologischen Museums. <em>Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1869.</em> : 703-711. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Peprilus medius (Peters, 1869). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=276561 on 2026-07-09
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Stromateus medius Peters, 1869) Peters, W. (C. H.). (1869). Über neue oder weniger bekannte Fische des Berliner Zoologischen Museums. <em>Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1869.</em> : 703-711. [details]
original description (of Stromateus palometa Jordan & Bollman, 1890) Jordan, D. S.; Bollman, C. H. (1890). Descriptions of new species of fishes collected at the Galapagos Islands and along the coast of the United States of Colombia, 1887-'88. In: Scientific results of explorations by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 12 (770): 149-183., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.12-770.149 [details]
original description (of Stromateus palometa Jordan & Bollman, 1890) Jordan, D. S.; Bollman, C. H. (1890). Descriptions of new species of fishes collected at the Galapagos Islands and along the coast of the United States of Colombia, 1887-'88. In: Scientific results of explorations by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 12 (770): 149-183., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.12-770.149 [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
context source (PeRMS)
Chirichigno, N.; Cornejo, M. (2001). Catálogo comentado de los peces marinos del Perú. <em>2ª ed. Instituto del Mar de Perú. Publicación Especial. Callao.</em> 314 p. [details]
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]
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 (19 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Stromateus medius Peters, 1869)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Peprilus medius)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Stromateus medius Peters, 1869)
To Fishbase (from synonym Peprilus palometa (Jordan & Bollman, 1890))
To Fishbase (from synonym Palometa palometa (Jordan & Bollman, 1890))
To GenBank (19 nucleotides; 15 proteins) (from synonym Stromateus medius Peters, 1869)
To GenBank (19 nucleotides; 15 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Stromateus medius Peters, 1869)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Peprilus medius)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Stromateus medius Peters, 1869)
To Fishbase (from synonym Peprilus palometa (Jordan & Bollman, 1890))
To Fishbase (from synonym Palometa palometa (Jordan & Bollman, 1890))
To GenBank (19 nucleotides; 15 proteins) (from synonym Stromateus medius Peters, 1869)
To GenBank (19 nucleotides; 15 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
