African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Anarchias Jordan & Starks, 1906

WoRMS taxon details

Anarchias Jordan & Starks, 1906

AphiaID

125634 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125634)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Uropterygiinae Fowler, 1925

Direct children (20)

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Species Anarchias allardicei Jordan & Starks, 1906
Species Anarchias cantonensis (Schultz, 1943)
Species Anarchias euryurus (Lea, 1913)
Species Anarchias exulatus Reece, Smith & Holm, 2010
Species Anarchias galapagensis (Seale, 1940)
Species Anarchias leucurus (Snyder, 1904)
Species Anarchias longicauda (Peters, 1877)
Species Anarchias schultzi Reece, Smith & Holm, 2010
Species Anarchias seychellensis Smith, 1962
Species Anarchias similis (Lea, 1913)
Species Anarchias supremus McCosker & Stewart, 2006
Species Anarchias cantanensis (Schultz, 1943) accepted as Anarchias cantonensis (Schultz, 1943) (misspelling)
Species Anarchias fuscus Smith, 1962 accepted as Anarchias allardicei Jordan & Starks, 1906
Species Anarchias grassi (Roule, 1916) accepted as Anarchias longicauda (Peters, 1877)
Species Anarchias grassii (Roule, 1916) accepted as Anarchias longicauda (Peters, 1877) (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
Species Anarchias knighti Jordan & Starks, 1906 accepted as Uropterygius macrocephalus (Bleeker, 1864) (synonym)
Species Anarchias longicaudis (Peters, 1877) accepted as Anarchias longicauda (Peters, 1877) (Misspelling)
Species Anarchias maldiviensis Klausewitz, 1964 accepted as Anarchias allardicei Jordan & Starks, 1906
Species Anarchias vermiformis Smith, 1962 accepted as Uropterygius concolor Rüppell, 1838
Species Anarchias yoshiae Kanazawa, 1952 accepted as Anarchias similis (Lea, 1913)

Environment

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

Original description

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. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. . 25 (for 1905): 173-455 + index 457-488, Pls. 33-53. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Anarchias Jordan & Starks, 1906. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125634 on 2025-06-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2006-09-05 08:30:55Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2012-11-06 09:09:00Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

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Nomenclature

original description 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. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. . 25 (for 1905): 173-455 + index 457-488, Pls. 33-53. [details]

basis of record van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [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]

Other

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone]. , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]