WoRMS taxon details
Petroscirtes fallax Smith-Vaniz, 1976
279037 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:279037)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Smith-Vaniz, W. F. (1976). The saber-toothed blennies, tribe Nemophini (Pisces: Blenniidae). <em>Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 19: i-vii + 1-196, 18 unnum. plates. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Petroscirtes fallax Smith-Vaniz, 1976. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=279037 on 2025-12-25
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Nomenclature
original description
Smith-Vaniz, W. F. (1976). The saber-toothed blennies, tribe Nemophini (Pisces: Blenniidae). <em>Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 19: i-vii + 1-196, 18 unnum. plates. [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 (6 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Petroscirtes fallax)
To FishBase
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 7 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Petroscirtes (Dasson) fallax USNM 201365 holotype photograph lateral view)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Petroscirtes (Dasson) fallax USNM 201365 holotype radiograph lateral view)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Petroscirtes fallax)
To FishBase
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 7 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Petroscirtes (Dasson) fallax USNM 201365 holotype photograph lateral view)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Petroscirtes (Dasson) fallax USNM 201365 holotype radiograph lateral view)
To ITIS