WoRMS taxon details
Petroscirtes xestus Jordan & Seale, 1906
279042 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:279042)
accepted
Species
Petroscirtes pindae Smith, 1959 · unaccepted
Petroscrites xestus Jordan & Seale, 1906 · unaccepted (misspelling)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Jordan, D. S.; Seale, A. (1906). The fishes of Samoa. Description of the species found in the archipelago, with a provisional check-list of the fishes of Oceania. <em>Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries.</em> . 25 (for 1905): 173-455 + index 457-488, Pls. 33-53. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Petroscirtes xestus Jordan & Seale, 1906. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=279042 on 2025-05-13
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Nomenclature
original description
Jordan, D. S.; Seale, A. (1906). The fishes of Samoa. Description of the species found in the archipelago, with a provisional check-list of the fishes of Oceania. <em>Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries.</em> . 25 (for 1905): 173-455 + index 457-488, Pls. 33-53. [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). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., 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 (6 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Petroscirtes xestus)
To FishBase (from synonym Petroscirtes pindae Smith, 1959)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Petroscrites xestus Jordan & Seale, 1906)
To FishBase images (Petroscirtes xestus, Guam, by Randall, J.E.)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Petroscirtes xestus P07895 illustration)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Petroscirtes xestus)
To FishBase (from synonym Petroscirtes pindae Smith, 1959)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Petroscrites xestus Jordan & Seale, 1906)
To FishBase images (Petroscirtes xestus, Guam, by Randall, J.E.)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Petroscirtes xestus P07895 illustration)
To ITIS
