WoRMS taxon details
Gerres methueni Regan, 1920
218532 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218532)
accepted
Species
Gerres longirostris Günther, 1861 · unaccepted
Gerres rappi (Barnard, 1927) · unaccepted
Xystaema rappi Barnard, 1927 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Regan, C. T. (1920). Freshwater fishes from Madagascar. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 9).</em> v. 5 (no. 29): 419-424. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Gerres methueni Regan, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=218532 on 2026-05-12
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Nomenclature
original description
Regan, C. T. (1920). Freshwater fishes from Madagascar. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 9).</em> v. 5 (no. 29): 419-424. [details]
original description (of Xystaema rappi Barnard, 1927) Barnard, K. H. (1927). A monograph of the marine fishes of South Africa. Part II. (Teleostei--Discocephali to end. Appendix.). <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 21 (2): 419-1065, 18-37. [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]
original description (of Xystaema rappi Barnard, 1927) Barnard, K. H. (1927). A monograph of the marine fishes of South Africa. Part II. (Teleostei--Discocephali to end. Appendix.). <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 21 (2): 419-1065, 18-37. [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
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | striped silver biddy [from synonym] | [details] |
| Japanese | ツッパリサギ [from synonym] | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (38 barcodes) (from synonym Gerres longirostris Günther, 1861)
To Barcode of Life (9 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Gerres rappi (Barnard, 1927))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) (from synonym Gerres longirostris Günther, 1861)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Xystaema rappi Barnard, 1927)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Gerres longirostris Günther, 1861)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gerres longirostris) (from synonym Gerres longirostris Günther, 1861)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gerres methueni)
To FishBase (from synonym Gerres longirostris Günther, 1861)
To FishBase (from synonym Xystaema rappi Barnard, 1927)
To FishBase (from synonym Gerres rappi (Barnard, 1927))
To FishBase
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 4 proteins) (from synonym Gerres rappi (Barnard, 1927))
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 4 proteins) (from synonym Xystaema rappi Barnard, 1927)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To ITIS
To Barcode of Life (9 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Gerres rappi (Barnard, 1927))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) (from synonym Gerres longirostris Günther, 1861)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Xystaema rappi Barnard, 1927)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Gerres longirostris Günther, 1861)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gerres longirostris) (from synonym Gerres longirostris Günther, 1861)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gerres methueni)
To FishBase (from synonym Gerres longirostris Günther, 1861)
To FishBase (from synonym Xystaema rappi Barnard, 1927)
To FishBase (from synonym Gerres rappi (Barnard, 1927))
To FishBase
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 4 proteins) (from synonym Gerres rappi (Barnard, 1927))
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 4 proteins) (from synonym Xystaema rappi Barnard, 1927)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To ITIS
