WoRMS

WoRMS taxon details

Eleotris pisonis (Gmelin, 1789)

AphiaID

277805 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:277805)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Eleotris Bloch & Schneider, 1801

Original name

Gobius pisonis Gmelin, 1789

Synonymised names

Eleotris carvalhonis Starks, 1913 · unaccepted (synonym)

Eleotris gyrinus Valenciennes, 1837 · unaccepted (synonym)

Gobius amorea Walbaum, 1792 · unaccepted (synonym)

Gobius pisonis Gmelin, 1789 · unaccepted

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Gobius pisonis Gmelin, 1789) Gmelin, J. F. (1789). Caroli a Linné ... Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species; cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decimo tertia, aucta, reformata. 3 vols. in 9 parts. Lipsiae,. 1788-93. v. 1 (pt 3): 1033-1516 [Fishes on pp. 1126-1516]., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.125970
page(s): 1206 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Eleotris pisonis (Gmelin, 1789). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=277805 on 2026-07-03

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-15 17:27:08Z

created

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Gobius pisonis Gmelin, 1789) Gmelin, J. F. (1789). Caroli a Linné ... Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species; cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decimo tertia, aucta, reformata. 3 vols. in 9 parts. Lipsiae,. 1788-93. v. 1 (pt 3): 1033-1516 [Fishes on pp. 1126-1516]., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.125970
page(s): 1206 [details]

original description (of Gobius amorea Walbaum, 1792) Walbaum, J. J. (1792). Petri Artedi sueci genera piscium. In quibus systema totum ichthyologiae proponitur cum classibus, ordinibus, generum characteribus, specierum differentiis, observationibus plurimis. Redactis speciebus 242 ad genera 52. Ichthyologiae pars III. Ant. Ferdin. Rose, Grypeswaldiae [Greifswald]. Part 3: [i-viii] + 1-723, Pls. 1-3., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.58874
page(s): 205 [details]

original description (of Eleotris gyrinus Valenciennes, 1837) Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1837). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome douzième. Suite du livre quatorzième. Gobioïdes. Livre quinzième. Acanthoptérygiens à pectorales pédiculées. v. 12, pp i-xxiv + 1-507 + 1 p., Pls. 344-368., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4445812 [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. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]

Other

context source (Bermuda) Smith-Vaniz, W. F.; Collette, B. B.; Luckhurst, B. E (1999). Fishes of Bermuda: History, zoogeography, annotated checklist, and identification keys (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists - Special Publication No.4) . ASIH, 424 pp. [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]