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WoRMS taxon details

Membras Bonaparte, 1836

AphiaID

159216 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159216)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Menidiinae Schultz, 1948

Synonymised names

Adenops Schultz, 1948 · unaccepted

Kirtlandia Jordan & Evermann, 1896 · unaccepted

Direct children (8)

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Species Membras analis (Schultz, 1948)
Species Membras dissimilis (Carvalho, 1956)
Species Membras gilberti (Jordan & Bollman, 1890)
Species Membras martinica (Valenciennes, 1835)
Species Membras procera Chernoff, Machado-Allison, Escobedo, Freiburger, Henderson, Hennessy et al., 2020
Species Membras pygmaea Chernoff, Machado-Allison, Escobedo, Freiburger, Henderson, Hennessy et al., 2020
Species Membras vagrans (Goode & Bean, 1879)
Species Membras laciniata (Swain, 1883) accepted as Membras vagrans (Goode & Bean, 1879)

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Membras Bonaparte, 1836. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159216 on 2026-07-07

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-05-27 07:39:43Z

created

Cuvelier, Daphne

2012-11-16 10:21:31Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description (of Adenops Schultz, 1948) Schultz, L. P. (1948). A revision of six subfamilies of Atherine fishes, with descriptions of new genera and species. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> v. 98 (no. 3220): 1-48, Pls. 1-2., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.98-3220.1 [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. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]