WoRMS taxon details
Monopterus Lacepède, 1800
269909 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:269909)
accepted
Genus
Amphinous Müller, 1841 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
Amphipnous Müller, 1841 · unaccepted
Aptergia Basilewsky, 1855 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling (of a synonym)
Apterigia Basilewsky, 1855 · unaccepted
Fluta Bloch & Schneider, 1801 · unaccepted
Ophicardia McClelland, 1844 · unaccepted
Pneumabranchus McClelland, 1844 · unaccepted
- Species Monopterus albus (Zuiew, 1793)
- 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 cuchia (Hamilton, 1822) accepted as Ophichthys cuchia (Hamilton, 1822) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- 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)
Lacepède, B. G. E. (1800). Histoire naturelle des poissons. v. 2: i-lxiv + 1-632, Pls. 1-20. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Monopterus Lacepède, 1800. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=269909 on 2026-04-07
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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]
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). (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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
