WoRMS taxon details
Microlepidotus inornatus Gill, 1862
281560 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:281560)
accepted
Species
Orthopristis inornatus (Gill, 1862) · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Gill, T. N. (1862). Catalogue of the fishes of Lower California in the Smithsonian Institution collected by Mr. J. Xantus. Part III. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 14: 249-262. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Microlepidotus inornatus Gill, 1862. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=281560 on 2026-05-29
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Nomenclature
original description
Gill, T. N. (1862). Catalogue of the fishes of Lower California in the Smithsonian Institution collected by Mr. J. Xantus. Part III. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 14: 249-262. [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 (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Orthopristis inornatus (Gill, 1862))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Microlepidotus inornatus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Orthopristis inornatus (Gill, 1862))
To GenBank (15 nucleotides; 9 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Orthopristis inornatus (Gill, 1862))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Microlepidotus inornatus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Orthopristis inornatus (Gill, 1862))
To GenBank (15 nucleotides; 9 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
