WoRMS taxon details
Gobiomorus maculatus (Günther, 1859)
280897 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:280897)
accepted
Species
Eleotris lembus Günther, 1861 · unaccepted
Gobiomorus lateralis (Gill, 1860) · unaccepted
Lembus maculatus Günther, 1859 · unaccepted
Philypnus lateralis Gill, 1860 · unaccepted
(of Lembus maculatus Günther, 1859) 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. Gobiomorus maculatus (Günther, 1859). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=280897 on 2026-04-02
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Eleotris lembus Günther, 1861) Günther, A. (1861). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. Gobiidae, Discoboli, Pediculati, Blenniidae, Labyrinthici, Mugilidae, Notacanthi. <em>London.</em> v. 3: i-xxv + 1-586 + i-x. [details]
original description (of Philypnus lateralis Gill, 1860) Gill, T. N. (1860). Monograph of the Philypni. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 12: 120-126. [details]
original description (of Lembus maculatus Günther, 1859) 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 Philypnus lateralis Gill, 1860) Gill, T. N. (1860). Monograph of the Philypni. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 12: 120-126. [details]
original description (of Lembus maculatus Günther, 1859) 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]
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 (45 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Eleotris lembus Günther, 1861)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) (from synonym Gobiomorus lateralis (Gill, 1860))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications) (from synonym Lembus maculatus Günther, 1859)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (31 publications) (from synonym Philypnus lateralis Gill, 1860)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gobiomorus maculatus)
To Fishbase (from synonym Eleotris lembus Günther, 1861)
To Fishbase (from synonym Gobiomorus lateralis (Gill, 1860))
To Fishbase (from synonym Lembus maculatus Günther, 1859)
To Fishbase (from synonym Philypnus lateralis Gill, 1860)
To GenBank (45 nucleotides; 65 proteins) (from synonym Lembus maculatus Günther, 1859)
To GenBank (45 nucleotides; 65 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Lembus maculatus Günther, 1859; HOLOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:2591891) (from synonym Lembus maculatus Günther, 1859)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Gobiomorus maculatus RAD108824-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Gobiomorus maculatus RAD108824-002)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Philypnus lateralis RAD108825-001) (from synonym Philypnus lateralis Gill, 1860)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Philypnus lateralis RAD108825-001) (from synonym Philypnus lateralis Gill, 1860)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Eleotris lembus Günther, 1861)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) (from synonym Gobiomorus lateralis (Gill, 1860))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications) (from synonym Lembus maculatus Günther, 1859)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (31 publications) (from synonym Philypnus lateralis Gill, 1860)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gobiomorus maculatus)
To Fishbase (from synonym Eleotris lembus Günther, 1861)
To Fishbase (from synonym Gobiomorus lateralis (Gill, 1860))
To Fishbase (from synonym Lembus maculatus Günther, 1859)
To Fishbase (from synonym Philypnus lateralis Gill, 1860)
To GenBank (45 nucleotides; 65 proteins) (from synonym Lembus maculatus Günther, 1859)
To GenBank (45 nucleotides; 65 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Lembus maculatus Günther, 1859; HOLOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:2591891) (from synonym Lembus maculatus Günther, 1859)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Gobiomorus maculatus RAD108824-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Gobiomorus maculatus RAD108824-002)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Philypnus lateralis RAD108825-001) (from synonym Philypnus lateralis Gill, 1860)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Philypnus lateralis RAD108825-001) (from synonym Philypnus lateralis Gill, 1860)
To ITIS
