WoRMS taxon details
Prionurus punctatus Gill, 1862
282349 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:282349)
accepted
Species
Xesurus punctatus (Gill, 1862) · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Gill, T. N. (1862). Catalogue of the fishes of Lower California in the Smithsonian Institution collected by Mr. J. Xantus. Part II. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 14: 242-246. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Prionurus punctatus Gill, 1862. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=282349 on 2026-02-02
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Nomenclature
original description
Gill, T. N. (1862). Catalogue of the fishes of Lower California in the Smithsonian Institution collected by Mr. J. Xantus. Part II. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 14: 242-246. [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 (37 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Prionurus punctatus)
To FishBase
To Fishbase (from synonym Xesurus punctatus (Gill, 1862))
To GenBank (69 nucleotides; 42 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Prionurus punctatus)
To FishBase
To Fishbase (from synonym Xesurus punctatus (Gill, 1862))
To GenBank (69 nucleotides; 42 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
