Marine Species Traits - Chrysichthys Bleeker, 1858

WoRMS taxon details

Chrysichthys Bleeker, 1858

AphiaID

268765 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:268765)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Claroteinae Bleeker, 1862

Synonymised names

Chrysobagrus Boulenger, 1899 · unaccepted

Chysichthys · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling

Melanodactylus Bleeker, 1858 · unaccepted

Rheoglanis Poll, 1966 · unaccepted

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Species Chrysichthys auratus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1809)
Species Chrysichthys filamentosus Boulenger, 1912 accepted as Chrysichthys auratus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1809) (synonym)
Species Chrysichthys kingsleyae Günther, 1899 accepted as Chrysichthys auratus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1809) (synonym)
Species Chrysichthys longifelis Pfaff, 1933 accepted as Chrysichthys auratus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1809) (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
Species Chrysichthys longifilis Pfaff, 1933 accepted as Chrysichthys auratus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1809) (junior synonym)
Species Chrysichthys macrops Günther, 1864 accepted as Chrysichthys auratus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1809) (synonym)
Species Chrysichthys persimilis Günther, 1899 accepted as Chrysichthys auratus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1809) (synonym)

Environment

~~marine~~, brackish, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Chrysichthys Bleeker, 1858. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=268765 on 2025-07-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-15 10:18:16Z

created

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-12-02 12:48:54Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Chrysobagrus Boulenger, 1899) Boulenger, G. A. (1899). Matériaux pour la faune du Congo. Poissons nouveaux du Congo. Troisième Partie. Silures, Acanthoptérygiens, Mastacembles, Plectognathes. Annales du Musee du Congo (Ser. Zoology). v. 1 (fasc. 3): 39-58, Pls. 20-29. [details]

original description (of Rheoglanis Poll, 1966) Poll, M. (1966). Genre et espèce nouveaux de Bagridae du fleuve Congo en région de Léopoldville. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines. v. 74 (pts 3-4): 425-428. [details]

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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To Catalog of Fishes
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Chrysichthys)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Rheoglanis) (from synonym Rheoglanis Poll, 1966)
To Genbank (from synonym Rheoglanis Poll, 1966)
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