WoRMS taxon details
Myroconger compressus Günther, 1870
281606 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:281606)
accepted
Species
Mycroconger compressus Günther, 1870 · unaccepted (misspelling)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Günther, A. (1870). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, ...[thru] ... Leptocardii, in the British Museum. v. 8: i-xxv + 1-549. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Myroconger compressus Günther, 1870. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=281606 on 2025-04-27
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Nomenclature
original description
Günther, A. (1870). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, ...[thru] ... Leptocardii, in the British Museum. v. 8: i-xxv + 1-549. [details]
Ecology
ecology 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
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]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Myroconger compressus)
To FishBase (from synonym Mycroconger compressus Günther, 1870)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Myroconger compressus, Cape Verde, by Cambraia Duarte, P.M.N. (c)ImagDOP)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 26 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
To NHMUK collection (Myroconger compressus Günther, 1870; HOLOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:2599699)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Myroconger compressus)
To FishBase (from synonym Mycroconger compressus Günther, 1870)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Myroconger compressus, Cape Verde, by Cambraia Duarte, P.M.N. (c)ImagDOP)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 26 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
To NHMUK collection (Myroconger compressus Günther, 1870; HOLOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:2599699)
To ITIS
