WoRMS taxon details
Histiogamphelus cristatus (MacLeay, 1881)
281079 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:281079)
accepted
Species
Histiogamphelus gallinaceus Hale, 1941 · unaccepted
Histiogamphelus maculatus Hale, 1939 · unaccepted
Leptoichthys cristatus MacLeay, 1881 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Leptoichthys cristatus MacLeay, 1881) Macleay, W. (1881). Descriptive catalogue of the fishes of Australia.Part IV. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> v. 6 (pt 2): 202-387., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.11870 [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Histiogamphelus cristatus (MacLeay, 1881). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=281079 on 2026-03-10
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Histiogamphelus gallinaceus Hale, 1941) Hale, H. M. (1941). A new South Australian pipe fish. The South Australian Naturalist. <em>Journal of the Field Naturalists Section of the Royal Society of South Australia.</em> 21(2): 10. [details]
original description (of Histiogamphelus maculatus Hale, 1939) Hale, H. M. (1939). Some fishes hitherto unknown from South Australian waters. The South Australian Naturalist. <em>Journal of the Field Naturalists Section of the Royal Society of South Australia.</em> 19(4): 11-5, 1 pl. [details]
original description (of Leptoichthys cristatus MacLeay, 1881) Macleay, W. (1881). Descriptive catalogue of the fishes of Australia.Part IV. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> v. 6 (pt 2): 202-387., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.11870 [details]
original description (of Histiogamphelus maculatus Hale, 1939) Hale, H. M. (1939). Some fishes hitherto unknown from South Australian waters. The South Australian Naturalist. <em>Journal of the Field Naturalists Section of the Royal Society of South Australia.</em> 19(4): 11-5, 1 pl. [details]
original description (of Leptoichthys cristatus MacLeay, 1881) Macleay, W. (1881). Descriptive catalogue of the fishes of Australia.Part IV. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> v. 6 (pt 2): 202-387., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.11870 [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
context source (RAS)
Australian Antarctic Data Centre. , available online at https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/ [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]
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 (1 publication) (from synonym Leptoichthys cristatus MacLeay, 1881)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Histiogamphelus gallinaceus Hale, 1941)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Histiogamphelus maculatus Hale, 1939)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Histiogamphelus cristatus)
To FishBase (from synonym Histiogamphelus maculatus Hale, 1939)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Leptoichthys cristatus MacLeay, 1881)
To FishBase (from synonym Histiogamphelus gallinaceus Hale, 1941)
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Leptoichthys cristatus MacLeay, 1881)
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Leptoichthys cristatus MacLeay, 1881)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Histiogamphelus gallinaceus Hale, 1941)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Histiogamphelus maculatus Hale, 1939)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Histiogamphelus cristatus)
To FishBase (from synonym Histiogamphelus maculatus Hale, 1939)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Leptoichthys cristatus MacLeay, 1881)
To FishBase (from synonym Histiogamphelus gallinaceus Hale, 1941)
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Leptoichthys cristatus MacLeay, 1881)
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
