WoRMS taxon details
Urobatis halleri (Cooper, 1863)
283085 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:283085)
accepted
Species
Urolophus halleri Cooper, 1863 · unaccepted (synonym)
Urolophus nebulosus Garman, 1885 · unaccepted
Urolophus umbrifer Jordan & Starks, 1895 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Urolophus halleri Cooper, 1863) Cooper, J. G. (1863). On new genera and species of Californian fishes - No. II. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 1).</em> v. 3 (sig. 6): 93-97. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Urobatis halleri (Cooper, 1863). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=283085 on 2026-07-07
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Urolophus halleri Cooper, 1863) Cooper, J. G. (1863). On new genera and species of Californian fishes - No. II. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 1).</em> v. 3 (sig. 6): 93-97. [details]
original description (of Urolophus nebulosus Garman, 1885) Garman, S. (1885). Notes and descriptions taken from selachians in the U. S. National Museum. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> v. 8 (no. 482): 39-44., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.482.39 [details]
original description (of Urolophus umbrifer Jordan & Starks, 1895) Jordan, D. S. (1895). The fishes of Sinaloa. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 2).</em> v. 5: 377-514, Pls. 26-55. [details]
original description (of Urolophus nebulosus Garman, 1885) Garman, S. (1885). Notes and descriptions taken from selachians in the U. S. National Museum. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> v. 8 (no. 482): 39-44., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.482.39 [details]
original description (of Urolophus umbrifer Jordan & Starks, 1895) Jordan, D. S. (1895). The fishes of Sinaloa. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 2).</em> v. 5: 377-514, Pls. 26-55. [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)
Hooker, Y. (2009). Nuevos registros de peces costeros tropicales para el Perú. [New records of coastal tropical fish in Peru]. Rev. peru. Biol. 16(1):033- 041. [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 (12 barcodes) (from synonym Urolophus halleri Cooper, 1863)
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Urolophus umbrifer Jordan & Starks, 1895)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) (from synonym Urolophus nebulosus Garman, 1885)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (64 publications) (from synonym Urolophus halleri Cooper, 1863)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Urobatis halleri)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Urolophus halleri Cooper, 1863)
To FishBase (from synonym Urolophus nebulosus Garman, 1885)
To FishBase (from synonym Urolophus umbrifer Jordan & Starks, 1895)
To GenBank (27 nucleotides; 28 proteins) (from synonym Urolophus halleri Cooper, 1863)
To GenBank (27 nucleotides; 28 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Urolophus umbrifer Jordan & Starks, 1895)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) (from synonym Urolophus nebulosus Garman, 1885)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (64 publications) (from synonym Urolophus halleri Cooper, 1863)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Urobatis halleri)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Urolophus halleri Cooper, 1863)
To FishBase (from synonym Urolophus nebulosus Garman, 1885)
To FishBase (from synonym Urolophus umbrifer Jordan & Starks, 1895)
To GenBank (27 nucleotides; 28 proteins) (from synonym Urolophus halleri Cooper, 1863)
To GenBank (27 nucleotides; 28 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS