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Yarrella Goode & Bean, 1896

AphiaID

158834 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158834)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Yarrellidae Chang et al., 2025

Original name

Yarrella Goode & Bean, 1896

Synonymised names

Lychnopoles Garman, 1899 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Varrela Goode & Bean, 1896 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling

Yarella · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling

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Species Yarrella argenteola (Garman, 1899)
Species Yarrella blackfordi Goode & Bean, 1896
Species Yarrella africana Gilchrist & von Bonde, 1924 accepted as Polymetme corythaeola (Alcock, 1898)
Species Yarrella corythaeola (Alcock, 1898) accepted as Polymetme corythaeola (Alcock, 1898)
Species Yarrella illustris (McCulloch, 1926) accepted as Polymetme illustris McCulloch, 1926 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Yarrella mauli Poll, 1953 accepted as Pollichthys mauli (Poll, 1953)
Species Yarrella surugaensis Matsubara, 1943 accepted as Polymetme surugaensis (Matsubara, 1943)

Environment

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

Original description

Goode, G.B.; Bean, T.H. (1896). Oceanic Ichthyology, a treatise on the deep-sea and pelagic fishes of the world, based chiefly upon the collections made by the steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk in the northwestern Atlantic, with an atlas containing 417 figures. Spec. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. Text: 2: i-xxxv + 1-26 + 1-553. Atlas: i-xxiii, 1-26. Pls. 123., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.48521 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Yarrella Goode & Bean, 1896. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158834 on 2026-08-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-05-27 07:39:43Z

created

Cuvelier, Daphne

2013-03-12 07:07:31Z

checked

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

2025-11-23 02:48:21Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Goode, G.B.; Bean, T.H. (1896). Oceanic Ichthyology, a treatise on the deep-sea and pelagic fishes of the world, based chiefly upon the collections made by the steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk in the northwestern Atlantic, with an atlas containing 417 figures. Spec. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. Text: 2: i-xxxv + 1-26 + 1-553. Atlas: i-xxiii, 1-26. Pls. 123., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.48521 [details]

basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

Other

context source (PeRMS) Chirichigno, N.; Cornejo, M. (2001). Catálogo comentado de los peces marinos del Perú. 2ª ed. Instituto del Mar de Perú. Publicación Especial. Callao. 314 p. [details]