WoRMS taxon details
Acanthemblemaria castroi Stephens & Hobson, 1966
279447 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:279447)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Stephens, J. S., Jr.; Hobson, E. S.; Johnson, R. K. (1966). Notes on distribution, behavior, and morphological variation in some chaenopsid fishes from the tropical eastern Pacific, with descriptions of two new species, Acanthemblemaria castroi and Coralliozetus springeri. <em>Copeia.</em> 1966 (no. 3): 424-438., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/1441061 [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Acanthemblemaria castroi Stephens & Hobson, 1966. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=279447 on 2026-03-29
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Nomenclature
original description
Stephens, J. S., Jr.; Hobson, E. S.; Johnson, R. K. (1966). Notes on distribution, behavior, and morphological variation in some chaenopsid fishes from the tropical eastern Pacific, with descriptions of two new species, Acanthemblemaria castroi and Coralliozetus springeri. <em>Copeia.</em> 1966 (no. 3): 424-438., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/1441061 [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 (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Acanthemblemaria castroi)
To FishBase
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 11 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Vulnerable)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Acanthemblemaria castroi USNM 198257 holotype photograph lateral view)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Acanthemblemaria castroi USNM 198257 holotype radiograph lateral view)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Acanthemblemaria castroi)
To FishBase
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 11 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Vulnerable)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Acanthemblemaria castroi USNM 198257 holotype photograph lateral view)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Acanthemblemaria castroi USNM 198257 holotype radiograph lateral view)
To ITIS
Unreviewed
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