Canadian Register of Marine Species - Cymatogaster Gibbons, 1854

WoRMS taxon details

Cymatogaster Gibbons, 1854

AphiaID

268920 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:268920)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Embiotocidae Agassiz, 1853

Synonymised names

Metrogaster Agassiz, 1861 · unaccepted

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Species Cymatogaster aggregata Gibbons, 1854
Species Cymatogaster aggregatus Gibbons, 1854 accepted as Cymatogaster aggregata Gibbons, 1854 (synonym)
Species Cymatogaster ellipticus Gibbons, 1854 accepted as Hyperprosopon ellipticum (Gibbons, 1854)
Species Cymatogaster gracilis Tarp, 1952 accepted as Cymatogaster aggregata Gibbons, 1854 (synonym)
Species Cymatogaster larkinsii Gibbons, 1854 accepted as Amphistichus rhodoterus (Agassiz, 1854)
Species Cymatogaster larkinsis Gibbons, 1854 accepted as Amphistichus rhodoterus (Agassiz, 1854) (misspelling)
Species Cymatogaster minimus Gibbons, 1854 accepted as Micrometrus minimus (Gibbons, 1854)
Species Cymatogaster pulchellus Gibbons, 1854 accepted as Amphistichus rhodoterus (Agassiz, 1854)
Species Cymatogaster rosaceus Jordan & Gilbert, 1880 accepted as Zalembius rosaceus (Jordan & Gilbert, 1880)

Environment

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

Original description

Gibbons, W. P. (1854). Description of four new species of viviparous fish read before the California Academy of Natural Sciences,. Daily Placer Times and Transcript [newspaper]. v. 5 (no. 1274): 2, col. 3. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Cymatogaster Gibbons, 1854. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=268920 on 2025-06-03

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-15 10:18:16Z

created

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Gibbons, W. P. (1854). Description of four new species of viviparous fish read before the California Academy of Natural Sciences,. Daily Placer Times and Transcript [newspaper]. v. 5 (no. 1274): 2, col. 3. [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]

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