WoRMS taxon details
Pleuronichthys guttulatus Girard, 1856
293680 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:293680)
accepted
Species
Hypsopsetta guttulata (Girard, 1856) · unaccepted
Parophrys ayresii Günther, 1862 · unaccepted
Pleuronichthys guttulata Girard, 1856 · unaccepted (misspelling)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
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]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Pleuronichthys guttulatus Girard, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=293680 on 2026-07-09
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Nomenclature
original description
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]
original description (of Parophrys ayresii Günther, 1862) Günther, A. (1862). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Acanthopterygii Pharyngognathi and Anacanthini in the collection of the British Museum. <em>British Museum, London.</em> 4: i-xxi + 1-534., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9419277 [details]
original description (of Pleuronichthys guttulata 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]
original description (of Parophrys ayresii Günther, 1862) Günther, A. (1862). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Acanthopterygii Pharyngognathi and Anacanthini in the collection of the British Museum. <em>British Museum, London.</em> 4: i-xxi + 1-534., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9419277 [details]
original description (of Pleuronichthys guttulata 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 (4 barcodes) (from synonym Hypsopsetta guttulata (Girard, 1856))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Parophrys ayresii Günther, 1862)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (45 publications) (from synonym Hypsopsetta guttulata (Girard, 1856))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hypsopsetta guttulata) (from synonym Hypsopsetta guttulata (Girard, 1856))
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Hypsopsetta guttulata (Girard, 1856))
To FishBase (from synonym Pleuronichthys guttulata Girard, 1856)
To FishBase (from synonym Parophrys ayresii Günther, 1862)
To GenBank (173 nucleotides; 34 proteins) (from synonym Pleuronichthys guttulata Girard, 1856)
To GenBank (173 nucleotides; 34 proteins)
To GenBank (173 nucleotides; 34 proteins) (from synonym Hypsopsetta guttulata (Girard, 1856))
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) (from synonym Hypsopsetta guttulata (Girard, 1856))
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Hypsopsetta guttulata P13976 illustration) (from synonym Hypsopsetta guttulata (Girard, 1856))
To NMNH Extant Collection (Hypsopsetta guttulata USNM 286145 photograph) (from synonym Hypsopsetta guttulata (Girard, 1856))
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Parophrys ayresii Günther, 1862)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (45 publications) (from synonym Hypsopsetta guttulata (Girard, 1856))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hypsopsetta guttulata) (from synonym Hypsopsetta guttulata (Girard, 1856))
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Hypsopsetta guttulata (Girard, 1856))
To FishBase (from synonym Pleuronichthys guttulata Girard, 1856)
To FishBase (from synonym Parophrys ayresii Günther, 1862)
To GenBank (173 nucleotides; 34 proteins) (from synonym Pleuronichthys guttulata Girard, 1856)
To GenBank (173 nucleotides; 34 proteins)
To GenBank (173 nucleotides; 34 proteins) (from synonym Hypsopsetta guttulata (Girard, 1856))
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) (from synonym Hypsopsetta guttulata (Girard, 1856))
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Hypsopsetta guttulata P13976 illustration) (from synonym Hypsopsetta guttulata (Girard, 1856))
To NMNH Extant Collection (Hypsopsetta guttulata USNM 286145 photograph) (from synonym Hypsopsetta guttulata (Girard, 1856))
To ITIS
