WoRMS taxon details
Kyphosus elegans (Peters, 1869)
273521 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:273521)
accepted
Species
Pimelepterus elegans Peters, 1869 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Pimelepterus elegans Peters, 1869) Peters, W. (C. H.). (1869). Über neue oder weniger bekannte Fische des Berliner Zoologischen Museums. <em>Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1869.</em> : 703-711. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Kyphosus elegans (Peters, 1869). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=273521 on 2026-02-26
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Pimelepterus elegans Peters, 1869) Peters, W. (C. H.). (1869). Über neue oder weniger bekannte Fische des Berliner Zoologischen Museums. <em>Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1869.</em> : 703-711. [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
context source (PeRMS)
Zavala, E.; Britzke, R.; Siccha‐Ramírez, Z.; Ramirez, J. L. (2025). DNA barcoding of marine rocky reef fishes from northern Peru suggests a parapatric speciation in the Tropical Eastern Pacific. <em>Ecology and Evolution.</em> 15(3)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70125 [details]
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]
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 (25 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Pimelepterus elegans Peters, 1869)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (39 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Kyphosus elegans)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Pimelepterus elegans Peters, 1869)
To GenBank (60 nucleotides; 40 proteins)
To GenBank (60 nucleotides; 40 proteins) (from synonym Pimelepterus elegans Peters, 1869)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Pimelepterus elegans Peters, 1869)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (39 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Kyphosus elegans)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Pimelepterus elegans Peters, 1869)
To GenBank (60 nucleotides; 40 proteins)
To GenBank (60 nucleotides; 40 proteins) (from synonym Pimelepterus elegans Peters, 1869)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
