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Forcipiger Jordan & McGregor, 1898

AphiaID

206225 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206225)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Chaetodontidae Rafinesque, 1815

Synonymised names

Foreipiger · unaccepted (misspelling)

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Species Forcipiger flavissimus Jordan & McGregor, 1898
Species Forcipiger longirostris (Broussonet, 1782)
Species Forcipiger wanai Allen, Erdmann & Jones Sbrocco, 2012
Species Forcipiger cyrano Randall, 1961 accepted as Forcipiger longirostris (Broussonet, 1782)
Species Forcipiger inornatus Randall, 1961 accepted as Forcipiger longirostris (Broussonet, 1782)

Environment

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

Original description

Jordan, D. S.; Evermann, B. W. (1898). The fishes of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama. Part II. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. No. 47: i-xxx + 1241-2183., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.39717 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Forcipiger Jordan & McGregor, 1898. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206225 on 2026-09-08

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-06-06 22:00:00Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2006-09-12 06:54:36Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2013-03-11 12:13:38Z

checked

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

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Nomenclature

original description Jordan, D. S.; Evermann, B. W. (1898). The fishes of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama. Part II. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. No. 47: i-xxx + 1241-2183., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.39717 [details]

basis of record Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [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]