WoRMS taxon details
Periophthalmus waltoni Koumans, 1941
277982 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:277982)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Koumans, F. P. (1941). Gobioid fishes of India. <em>Memoirs of the Indian Museum.</em> 13 (3): 205-329. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Periophthalmus waltoni Koumans, 1941. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=277982 on 2026-05-04
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Nomenclature
original description
Koumans, F. P. (1941). Gobioid fishes of India. <em>Memoirs of the Indian Museum.</em> 13 (3): 205-329. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [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 (33 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Periophthalmus waltoni)
To FishBase
To GenBank (239 nucleotides; 139 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Periophthalmus waltoni FIN028727 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Periophthalmus waltoni FIN028727B Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Periophthalmus waltoni)
To FishBase
To GenBank (239 nucleotides; 139 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Periophthalmus waltoni FIN028727 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Periophthalmus waltoni FIN028727B Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS