WoRMS taxon details
Syacium ovale (Günther, 1864)
275843 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:275843)
accepted
Species
Citharichthys ovalis (Günther, 1864) · unaccepted
Hemirhombus ovalis Günther, 1864 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Hemirhombus ovalis Günther, 1864) Günther, A. (1864). Report of a collection of fishes made by Messrs. Dow, Godman, and Salvin in Guatemala. Part first. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1864 (pt 1) (art. 3) : 144-154. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Syacium ovale (Günther, 1864). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=275843 on 2026-04-30
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Hemirhombus ovalis Günther, 1864) Günther, A. (1864). Report of a collection of fishes made by Messrs. Dow, Godman, and Salvin in Guatemala. Part first. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1864 (pt 1) (art. 3) : 144-154. [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)
Chirichigno, N.; Cornejo, M. (2001). Catálogo comentado de los peces marinos del Perú. <em>2ª ed. Instituto del Mar de Perú. Publicación Especial. Callao.</em> 314 p. [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 (7 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Hemirhombus ovalis Günther, 1864)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (21 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Citharichthys ovalis (Günther, 1864))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Syacium ovale)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Citharichthys ovalis (Günther, 1864))
To FishBase (from synonym Hemirhombus ovalis Günther, 1864)
To Genbank (from synonym Hemirhombus ovalis Günther, 1864)
To Genbank
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Hemirhombus ovalis Günther, 1864)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (21 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Citharichthys ovalis (Günther, 1864))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Syacium ovale)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Citharichthys ovalis (Günther, 1864))
To FishBase (from synonym Hemirhombus ovalis Günther, 1864)
To Genbank (from synonym Hemirhombus ovalis Günther, 1864)
To Genbank
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
