WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
(of Saurida australis Castelnau, 1879) Castelnau, F. L. (1879). Essay on the ichthyology of Port Jackson. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> v. 3 (pt 4): 347-402. page(s): 393 [details]
original description
(of Saurida ferox Ramsay, 1883) Ramsay, E. P. (1883). Description of some new Australian fishes. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> v. 8 (pt 1): 177-179. [details]
original description
(of Saurida truculenta MacLeay, 1881) Macleay, W. (1881). Descriptive catalogue of the fishes of Australia.Part IV. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> v. 6 (pt 2): 202-387., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.11870 [details]
original description
(of Salmo tumbil Bloch, 1795) Bloch, M. E. (1795). Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische. <em>Berlin.</em> v. 9. i-ii + 1-192, Pls. 397-429. [details]
original description
(of Saurus badimottah Rüppell, 1837) Rüppell, W. P. E. S. (1835-1838). Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehörig Fische des Rothen Meeres. <em>Siegmund Schmerber, Frankfurt am Main.</em> i-ii + 1-148, Pls. 1-33. [1835:1-28, Pls. 1-7; 1836:29-52, Pls. 8-14; 1837:53-80, Pls. 15-21; 1838:81-148, Pls. 22-33.]. [For dates see Sawyer 1952 [ref. 13582].]. [details]
basis of record
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Ecologyecology 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
Unreviewed
Description Commonly found on muddy bottoms, may enter shallower waters. Feeds mainly on fish, but also on crustaceans, and squid. Sold fresh in markets. [details]
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English |
greater lizardfish |
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To Barcode of Life (79 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) (from synonym Saurus argyrophanes Richardson, 1846)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Saurida truculenta MacLeay, 1881)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (28 publications) (from synonym Salmo tumbil Bloch, 1795)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (43 publications) (from synonym Saurida argyrophanes (Richardson, 1846))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Saurida ferox Ramsay, 1883)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (60 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Saurida australis Castelnau, 1879)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Saurida tumbil)
To FAO Species fact sheets
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Saurida australis Castelnau, 1879)
To FishBase (from synonym Saurida ferox Ramsay, 1883)
To FishBase (from synonym Saurida truculenta MacLeay, 1881)
To FishBase (from synonym Salmo tumbil Bloch, 1795)
To FishBase (from synonym Saurida argyrophanes (Richardson, 1846))
To FishBase (from synonym Saurus argyrophanes Richardson, 1846)
To FishBase images (Saurida tumbil, Bahrain, by Randall, J.E.)
To GenBank (140 nucleotides; 76 proteins)
To GenBank (140 nucleotides; 76 proteins) (from synonym Salmo tumbil Bloch, 1795)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Saurida tumbil FIN034581 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Saurida tumbil FIN034582 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Unreviewed
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