WoRMS taxon details
Lonchopisthus Gill, 1862
Lonchistium Myers, 1935 · unaccepted
- Species Lonchopisthus ancistrus Smith-Vaniz & Walsh, 2017
- Species Lonchopisthus higmani Mead, 1959
- Species Lonchopisthus lemur (Myers, 1935)
- Species Lonchopisthus micrognathus (Poey, 1860)
- Species Lonchopisthus sinuscalifornicus Castro-Aguirre & Villavicencio-Garayzar, 1988
- Species Lonchopisthus lindneri Ginsburg, 1942 accepted as Lonchopisthus micrognathus (Poey, 1860) (synonym)
- Species Lonchopisthus meadi Menezes & Lima de Figueiredo, 1971 accepted as Lonchopisthus lemur (Myers, 1935)
- Species Lonchopisthus vanderbilti Mowbray, 1928 accepted as Lonchopisthus micrognathus (Poey, 1860)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Lonchopisthus Gill, 1862. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=269721 on 2026-05-07
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Lonchistium Myers, 1935) Myers, G. S. (1935). A new genus of opisthognathid fishes. <em>Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections.</em> v. 91 (no. 23): 1-5. [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]
Other
context source (PeRMS)
Luque, C.; Alemán, S. (2019). Lonchopisthus sinuscalifornicus (Perciformes: Opistognathidae) bocón cola larga, nuevo registro para la ictiofauna del Perú. <em>Bol Inst Mar Perú.</em> 34(1): 306-311., available online at https://revistas.imarpe.gob.pe/index.php/boletin/article/view/25 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
