WoRMS taxon details
Gymnapogon Regan, 1905
Acanthapogon Fowler, 1938 · unaccepted
Australaphia Whitley, 1936 · unaccepted
Gymnopogon · unaccepted (misspelling)
Henicichthys Tanaka, 1915 · unaccepted
- Species Gymnapogon africanus Smith, 1954
- Species Gymnapogon annona (Whitley, 1936)
- Species Gymnapogon foraminosus (Tanaka, 1915)
- Species Gymnapogon janus Fraser, 2016
- Species Gymnapogon japonicus Regan, 1905
- Species Gymnapogon melanogaster Gon & Golani, 2002
- Species Gymnapogon philippinus (Herre, 1939)
- Species Gymnapogon sagittarius Yoshida, Kawai & Motomura, 2019
- Species Gymnapogon urospilotus Lachner, 1953
- Species Gymnapogon vanderbilti (Fowler, 1938)
- Species Gymnapogon velum Fraser, 2019
- Species Gymnapogon gracilicauda Lachner, 1953 accepted as Pseudamiops gracilicauda (Lachner, 1953) (synonym)
- Species Gymnapogon urospilos Lachner, 1953 accepted as Gymnapogon urospilotus Lachner, 1953 (misspelling)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Regan, C. T. (1905). On a collection of fishes from the inland sea of Japan made by Mr. R. Gordon Smith. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7).</em> 15 (85) (art. 2): 17-26, Pls. 2-3. [details]
Note Type species: G. japonicus Regan, 1905 (Japan)
Unreviewed
Type species Type species: G. japonicus Regan, 1905 (Japan) [details]
Description In life transparent, without scales, the body covered with transverse and longitudinal series of papillae. Moderate number...
Description In life transparent, without scales, the body covered with transverse and longitudinal series of papillae. Moderate number of gillrakers. Mouth large with 1-2 series of small sharp teeth and small canines in each jaw. Canines on vomer. Small teeth on palatines, none on pterygoids. Caudal forked. Small feeble fishes of the tropical Indo-Pacific, living in shelter in broken coral in tide pools [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Gymnapogon Regan, 1905. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206221 on 2025-04-30
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Nomenclature
original description
Regan, C. T. (1905). On a collection of fishes from the inland sea of Japan made by Mr. R. Gordon Smith. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7).</em> 15 (85) (art. 2): 17-26, Pls. 2-3. [details]
basis of record Smith, J.L.B. (1961). Fishes of the family Apogonidae of the Western Indian Ocean and the Seychelles. Ichthyological Bulletin 22. [details]
basis of record Smith, J.L.B. (1961). Fishes of the family Apogonidae of the Western Indian Ocean and the Seychelles. Ichthyological Bulletin 22. [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
Other
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 Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Description In life transparent, without scales, the body covered with transverse and longitudinal series of papillae. Moderate number of gillrakers. Mouth large with 1-2 series of small sharp teeth and small canines in each jaw. Canines on vomer. Small teeth on palatines, none on pterygoids. Caudal forked. Small feeble fishes of the tropical Indo-Pacific, living in shelter in broken coral in tide pools [details]Type species Type species: G. japonicus Regan, 1905 (Japan) [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | クダリボウズギス属 | [details] |
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Catalog of Fishes
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gymnapogon)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gymnopogon) (from synonym Gymnopogon)
To Genbank (from synonym Gymnopogon)
To Genbank
To NMNH Extant Collection (Gymnapogon urospilotus USNM 409278 photograph lateral view)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Gymnapogon urospilotus USNM 409381 photograph lateral view)
To ITIS
To Catalog of Fishes
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gymnapogon)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gymnopogon) (from synonym Gymnopogon)
To Genbank (from synonym Gymnopogon)
To Genbank
To NMNH Extant Collection (Gymnapogon urospilotus USNM 409278 photograph lateral view)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Gymnapogon urospilotus USNM 409381 photograph lateral view)
To ITIS
