WoRMS taxon details
Herklotsichthys castelnaui (Ogilby, 1897)
272261 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:272261)
accepted
Species
Harengula abbreviata Valenciennes, 1847 · unaccepted
Kowala castelnaui Ogilby, 1897 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Kowala castelnaui Ogilby, 1897) Ogilby, J. D. (1897). New genera and species of Australian fishes. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> v. 22 (pt 1): 62-95. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Herklotsichthys castelnaui (Ogilby, 1897). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=272261 on 2026-01-21
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Harengula abbreviata Valenciennes, 1847) Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1847). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome vingtième. Livre vingt et unième. De la famille des Clupéoïdes. Hist. Nat. Poiss. v. 20: i-xviii + 1 p. + 1-472, Pls. 591-606. [details]
original description (of Kowala castelnaui Ogilby, 1897) Ogilby, J. D. (1897). New genera and species of Australian fishes. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> v. 22 (pt 1): 62-95. [details]
original description (of Kowala castelnaui Ogilby, 1897) Ogilby, J. D. (1897). New genera and species of Australian fishes. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> v. 22 (pt 1): 62-95. [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] 
Other
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) (from synonym Harengula abbreviata Valenciennes, 1847)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Kowala castelnaui Ogilby, 1897)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Herklotsichthys castelnaui)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Harengula abbreviata Valenciennes, 1847)
To FishBase (from synonym Kowala castelnaui Ogilby, 1897)
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 3 proteins) (from synonym Kowala castelnaui Ogilby, 1897)
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) (from synonym Harengula abbreviata Valenciennes, 1847)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Kowala castelnaui Ogilby, 1897)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Herklotsichthys castelnaui)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Harengula abbreviata Valenciennes, 1847)
To FishBase (from synonym Kowala castelnaui Ogilby, 1897)
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 3 proteins) (from synonym Kowala castelnaui Ogilby, 1897)
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
