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WoRMS taxon details

Monopterus Lacepède, 1800

AphiaID

269909 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:269909)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Synbranchidae Bonaparte, 1835

Synonymised names

Amphinous · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling

Amphipnous Müller, 1841 · unaccepted

Aptergia · unaccepted (misspelling)

Apterigia Basilewsky, 1855 · unaccepted

Fluta Bloch & Schneider, 1801 · unaccepted

Ophicardia McClelland, 1844 · unaccepted

Ophichthys Swainson, 1839 · unaccepted (synonym)

Pneumabranchus McClelland, 1844 · unaccepted

Typhlosynbranchus Pellegrin, 1922 · unaccepted

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Species Monopterus albus (Zuiew, 1793)
Species Monopterus cuchia (Hamilton, 1822)
Species Monopterus alba (Zuiew, 1793) accepted as Monopterus albus (Zuiew, 1793) (misspelling)
Species Monopterus cinereus (McClelland, 1844) accepted as Monopterus albus (Zuiew, 1793)
Species Monopterus helvolus Richardson, 1846 accepted as Monopterus albus (Zuiew, 1793)
Species Monopterus javanensis Lacepède, 1800 accepted as Monopterus albus (Zuiew, 1793)
Species Monopterus laevis (Lacepède, 1803) accepted as Monopterus albus (Zuiew, 1793)
Species Monopterus marmoratus Richardson, 1846 accepted as Monopterus albus (Zuiew, 1793)
Species Monopterus xanthognathus (Richardson, 1845) accepted as Monopterus albus (Zuiew, 1793)

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Lacepède, B. G. E. (1800). Histoire naturelle des poissons. v. 2: i-lxiv + 1-632, Pls. 1-20. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Monopterus Lacepède, 1800. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=269909 on 2025-04-24

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-15 10:18:16Z

created

Bailly, Nicolas

2013-02-26 10:10:34Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Lacepède, B. G. E. (1800). Histoire naturelle des poissons. v. 2: i-lxiv + 1-632, Pls. 1-20. [details]

original description (of Apterigia Basilewsky, 1855) Basilewsky, S. (1855). Ichthyographia Chinae borealis. <em>Nouveaux mémoires de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou.</em> 10: 215-263, Pls. 1-9. [Published in 1855, written in 1852 (see cover). Plates cited in text do not agree with the actual plates.]. [details]

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]