WoRMS taxon details
Echidna unicolor Schultz, 1953
217471 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217471)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Schultz, L. P.; Herald, E. S.; Lachner, E. A.; Welander, A. D.; Woods, L. P. (1953). Fishes of the Marshall and Marianas islands. Vol. I. Families from Asymmetrontidae through Siganidae. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> No. 202, v. 1: i-xxxii + 1-685, Pls. 1-74. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Echidna unicolor Schultz, 1953. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217471 on 2026-01-14
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Nomenclature
original description
Schultz, L. P.; Herald, E. S.; Lachner, E. A.; Welander, A. D.; Woods, L. P. (1953). Fishes of the Marshall and Marianas islands. Vol. I. Families from Asymmetrontidae through Siganidae. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> No. 202, v. 1: i-xxxii + 1-685, Pls. 1-74. [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]
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]
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] 
Present
Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Echidna unicolor)
To FishBase
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 15 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Echidna unicolor USNM 401775 photograph lateral view)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Echidna unicolor USNM 439390 photograph lateral view)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Echidna unicolor)
To FishBase
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 15 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Echidna unicolor USNM 401775 photograph lateral view)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Echidna unicolor USNM 439390 photograph lateral view)
To ITIS