WoRMS taxon details
Gerres nigri Günther, 1859
276963 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:276963)
accepted
Species
Diapterus nigri (Günther, 1859) · unaccepted
Gerres octactis Bleeker, 1863 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Günther, A. (1859). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. Gasterosteidae, Berycidae, Percidae, Aphredoderidae, Pristipomatidae, Mullidae, Sparidae. <em>London.</em> v. 1: i-xxxi + 1-524., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.8809 [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Gerres nigri Günther, 1859. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=276963 on 2026-05-07
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Nomenclature
original description
Günther, A. (1859). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. Gasterosteidae, Berycidae, Percidae, Aphredoderidae, Pristipomatidae, Mullidae, Sparidae. <em>London.</em> v. 1: i-xxxi + 1-524., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.8809 [details]
original description (of Gerres octactis Bleeker, 1863) Bleeker, P. (1863). Mémoire sur les poissons de la côte de Guinée. <em>Natuurkundige Verhandelingen van de Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen te Haarlem (Ser. 2).</em> v. 18 (1862): 1-136, Pls. 1-28. [details]
original description (of Gerres octactis Bleeker, 1863) Bleeker, P. (1863). Mémoire sur les poissons de la côte de Guinée. <em>Natuurkundige Verhandelingen van de Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen te Haarlem (Ser. 2).</em> v. 18 (1862): 1-136, Pls. 1-28. [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 (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Gerres octactis Bleeker, 1863)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Diapterus nigri (Günther, 1859))
To FishBase (from synonym Gerres octactis Bleeker, 1863)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Gerres nigri Günther, 1859; LECTOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:2586660)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Gerres octactis Bleeker, 1863)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Diapterus nigri (Günther, 1859))
To FishBase (from synonym Gerres octactis Bleeker, 1863)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Gerres nigri Günther, 1859; LECTOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:2586660)
To ITIS
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