WoRMS taxon details
Pleurosicya muscarum (Jordan & Seale, 1906)
219546 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:219546)
accepted
Species
Pleurosicya timidus (Smith, 1959) · unaccepted
Pleurosicyops timidus Smith, 1959 · unaccepted
Rhinogobius muscarum Jordan & Seale, 1906 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Rhinogobius muscarum Jordan & Seale, 1906) Jordan, D. S.; Seale, A. (1906). The fishes of Samoa. Description of the species found in the archipelago, with a provisional check-list of the fishes of Oceania. <em>Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries.</em> . 25 (for 1905): 173-455 + index 457-488, Pls. 33-53. [details]
Description A very small goby that lives on soft corals (Ref. 1602).
Description A very small goby that lives on soft corals (Ref. 1602). [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Pleurosicya muscarum (Jordan & Seale, 1906). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=219546 on 2025-11-05
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Rhinogobius muscarum Jordan & Seale, 1906) Jordan, D. S.; Seale, A. (1906). The fishes of Samoa. Description of the species found in the archipelago, with a provisional check-list of the fishes of Oceania. <em>Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries.</em> . 25 (for 1905): 173-455 + index 457-488, Pls. 33-53. [details]
original description (of Pleurosicyops timidus Smith, 1959) Smith, J. L. B. (1959). Gobioid fishes of the families Gobiidae, Periophthalmidae, Trypauchenidae, Taenioididae and Kraemeriidae of the western Indian Ocean. <em>Ichthyological Bulletin, Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University.</em> 13: 185-225, Pls. 9-13. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
original description (of Pleurosicyops timidus Smith, 1959) Smith, J. L. B. (1959). Gobioid fishes of the families Gobiidae, Periophthalmidae, Trypauchenidae, Taenioididae and Kraemeriidae of the western Indian Ocean. <em>Ichthyological Bulletin, Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University.</em> 13: 185-225, Pls. 9-13. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [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] 
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Description A very small goby that lives on soft corals (Ref. 1602). [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ウミタケハゼ | [details] |
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Rhinogobius muscarum Jordan & Seale, 1906)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To FishBase (from synonym Pleurosicya timidus (Smith, 1959))
To FishBase (from synonym Rhinogobius muscarum Jordan & Seale, 1906)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Pleurosicyops timidus Smith, 1959)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Coryphopterus muscarum P03653 illustration) (from synonym Rhinogobius muscarum Jordan & Seale, 1906)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Rhinogobius muscarum Jordan & Seale, 1906)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To FishBase (from synonym Pleurosicya timidus (Smith, 1959))
To FishBase (from synonym Rhinogobius muscarum Jordan & Seale, 1906)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Pleurosicyops timidus Smith, 1959)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Coryphopterus muscarum P03653 illustration) (from synonym Rhinogobius muscarum Jordan & Seale, 1906)
To ITIS
Unreviewed
Hosted externally, from synonym
