WoRMS taxon details
Psychrolutes paradoxus Günther, 1861
254566 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:254566)
accepted
Species
Psychrolutes zebra Bean, 1890 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Günther, A. (1861). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. Gobiidae, Discoboli, Pediculati, Blenniidae, Labyrinthici, Mugilidae, Notacanthi. <em>London.</em> v. 3: i-xxv + 1-586 + i-x. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Psychrolutes paradoxus Günther, 1861. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=254566 on 2025-07-15
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Nomenclature
original description
Günther, A. (1861). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. Gobiidae, Discoboli, Pediculati, Blenniidae, Labyrinthici, Mugilidae, Notacanthi. <em>London.</em> v. 3: i-xxv + 1-586 + i-x. [details]
original description (of Psychrolutes zebra Bean, 1890) Bean, T. H. (1890). Scientific results of explorations by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross. No. XI. New fishes collected off the coast of Alaska and the adjacent region southward. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 13 (795): 37-45. [details]
basis of record Huettmann, F. (2007). ArcOD species list by Falk Huettmann. provided on 2007-11-25. (look up in IMIS) [details]
original description (of Psychrolutes zebra Bean, 1890) Bean, T. H. (1890). Scientific results of explorations by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross. No. XI. New fishes collected off the coast of Alaska and the adjacent region southward. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 13 (795): 37-45. [details]
basis of record Huettmann, F. (2007). ArcOD species list by Falk Huettmann. provided on 2007-11-25. (look up in IMIS) [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
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | tadpole sculpin | [details] |
| French | chabot-têtard | [details] |
| Japanese | ウラナイカジカ | [details] |
| Russian | Мягкий (удивительный) психролют | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) (from synonym Psychrolutes zebra Bean, 1890)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (54 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Psychrolutes paradoxus)
To FishBase (from synonym Psychrolutes zebra Bean, 1890)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Psychrolutes paradoxus, USA, by Nichols, J.)
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 16 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) (from synonym Psychrolutes zebra Bean, 1890)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (54 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Psychrolutes paradoxus)
To FishBase (from synonym Psychrolutes zebra Bean, 1890)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Psychrolutes paradoxus, USA, by Nichols, J.)
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 16 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
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