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://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=219546 on 2025-08-05
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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 FishBase images (Pleurosicya muscarum, Indonesia, by Allen, G.R.)
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 FishBase images (Pleurosicya muscarum, Indonesia, by Allen, G.R.)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Coryphopterus muscarum P03653 illustration) (from synonym Rhinogobius muscarum Jordan & Seale, 1906)
To ITIS
