WoRMS taxon details
Tetrapturus georgii Lowe, 1841
126953 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126953)
accepted
Species
Tetrapturus georgei Lowe, 1841 · unaccepted (misspelling)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Lowe, R. T. (1841). Certain new species of Madeiran fishes . <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1840.</em> (pt. 8, no. 89): 36-39. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Tetrapturus georgii Lowe, 1841. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126953 on 2026-01-23
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Nomenclature
original description
Lowe, R. T. (1841). Certain new species of Madeiran fishes . <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1840.</em> (pt. 8, no. 89): 36-39. [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, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [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, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [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
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | degenspeervis | [details] |
| English | roundscale spearfish | [details] |
| French | makaire épée | [details] |
| German | rundschuppenSpeerfisch | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (58 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Tetrapturus georgei Lowe, 1841)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Tetrapturus georgii)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Tetrapturus georgei Lowe, 1841)
To GenBank (208 nucleotides; 145 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Tetrapturus georgei Lowe, 1841)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Tetrapturus georgei Lowe, 1841)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Tetrapturus georgii)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Tetrapturus georgei Lowe, 1841)
To GenBank (208 nucleotides; 145 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Tetrapturus georgei Lowe, 1841)
To ITIS
