WoRMS taxon details
Tomicodon petersii (Garman, 1875)
282998 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:282998)
accepted
Species
Rimicola cessator Fowler, 1944 · unaccepted (synonym)
Sicyases petersii Garman, 1875 · unaccepted
Sicyases pyrrhocinclus Cope, 1877 · unaccepted
Tomicodon petersi (Garman, 1875) · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Sicyases petersii Garman, 1875) Garman, S. (1875). Notes on some fishes and reptiles from the western coast of South America. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> v. 18 (for 1875-1876): 202-205. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Tomicodon petersii (Garman, 1875). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=282998 on 2026-06-16
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Rimicola cessator Fowler, 1944) Fowler, H. W. (1944). Results of the fifth George Vanderbilt expedition (1941) (Bahamas, Caribbean Sea, Panama, Galápagos Archipelago and Mexican Pacific islands). The Fishes. <em>Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 6: 57-529, Pls. 1-20. [details]
original description (of Sicyases petersii Garman, 1875) Garman, S. (1875). Notes on some fishes and reptiles from the western coast of South America. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> v. 18 (for 1875-1876): 202-205. [details]
original description (of Sicyases pyrrhocinclus Cope, 1877) Cope, E. D. (1877). Synopsis of the cold blooded vertebrata, procured by Prof. James Orton during his exploration of Peru in 1876-77. <em>Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.</em> v. 17: 33-49.
page(s): 43 [27] [details]
original description (of Sicyases petersii Garman, 1875) Garman, S. (1875). Notes on some fishes and reptiles from the western coast of South America. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> v. 18 (for 1875-1876): 202-205. [details]
original description (of Sicyases pyrrhocinclus Cope, 1877) Cope, E. D. (1877). Synopsis of the cold blooded vertebrata, procured by Prof. James Orton during his exploration of Peru in 1876-77. <em>Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.</em> v. 17: 33-49.
page(s): 43 [27] [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 (PeRMS)
Chirichigno, N.; Cornejo, M. (2001). Catálogo comentado de los peces marinos del Perú. <em>2ª ed. Instituto del Mar de Perú. Publicación Especial. Callao.</em> 314 p. [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
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | hourglass clingfish | [details] |
| Spanish | chupapiedras clepsidrachupapiedra clepsidra | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Sicyases petersii Garman, 1875)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Sicyases pyrrhocinclus Cope, 1877)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Tomicodon petersii)
To FishBase (from synonym Rimicola cessator Fowler, 1944)
To FishBase (from synonym Sicyases petersii Garman, 1875)
To FishBase (from synonym Tomicodon petersi (Garman, 1875))
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Sicyases pyrrhocinclus Cope, 1877)
To GenBank (294 nucleotides; 294 proteins) (from synonym Sicyases petersii Garman, 1875)
To GenBank (294 nucleotides; 294 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Sicyases petersii Garman, 1875)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Sicyases pyrrhocinclus Cope, 1877)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Tomicodon petersii)
To FishBase (from synonym Rimicola cessator Fowler, 1944)
To FishBase (from synonym Sicyases petersii Garman, 1875)
To FishBase (from synonym Tomicodon petersi (Garman, 1875))
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Sicyases pyrrhocinclus Cope, 1877)
To GenBank (294 nucleotides; 294 proteins) (from synonym Sicyases petersii Garman, 1875)
To GenBank (294 nucleotides; 294 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
