WoRMS taxon details
Ariopsis guatemalensis (Günther, 1864)
293651 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:293651)
accepted
Species
Ariopsis Gill, 1861 accepted as Sciades Müller & Troschel, 1849
Arius caerulescens Günther, 1864 · unaccepted
Arius guatemalensis Günther, 1864 · unaccepted
Galeichthys azureus Jordan & Williams, 1895 · unaccepted
Galeichthys coerulescens (Günther, 1864) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Galeichthys guatemalensis (Günther, 1864) · unaccepted
Hexanematichthys coerulescens (Günther, 1864) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Hexanematichthys guatemalensis (Günther, 1864) · unaccepted
Sciades guatemalensis (Günther, 1864) · unaccepted
Tachisurus coerulescens (Günther, 1864) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Tachisurus guatemalensis (Günther, 1864) · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Arius guatemalensis Günther, 1864) Günther, A. (1864). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Siluridae, Characinidae, Haplochitonidae, Sternoptychidae, Scopelidae, Stomiatidae in the collection of the British Museum. v. 5: i-xxii + 1-455. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Ariopsis guatemalensis (Günther, 1864). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=293651 on 2026-08-07
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Arius guatemalensis Günther, 1864) Günther, A. (1864). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Siluridae, Characinidae, Haplochitonidae, Sternoptychidae, Scopelidae, Stomiatidae in the collection of the British Museum. v. 5: i-xxii + 1-455. [details]
original description (of Galeichthys azureus Jordan & Williams, 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 Arius caerulescens Günther, 1864) Günther, A. (1864). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Siluridae, Characinidae, Haplochitonidae, Sternoptychidae, Scopelidae, Stomiatidae in the collection of the British Museum. v. 5: i-xxii + 1-455. [details]
basis of record Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
original description (of Galeichthys azureus Jordan & Williams, 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 Arius caerulescens Günther, 1864) Günther, A. (1864). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Siluridae, Characinidae, Haplochitonidae, Sternoptychidae, Scopelidae, Stomiatidae in the collection of the British Museum. v. 5: i-xxii + 1-455. [details]
basis of record Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [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 Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Hexanematichthys guatemalensis (Günther, 1864))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Galeichthys azureus Jordan & Williams, 1895)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications) (from synonym Galeichthys guatemalensis (Günther, 1864))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Galeichthys coerulescens (Günther, 1864))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Tachisurus coerulescens (Günther, 1864))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Tachisurus guatemalensis (Günther, 1864))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Arius caerulescens Günther, 1864)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Sciades guatemalensis (Günther, 1864))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Sciades guatemalensis) (from synonym Sciades guatemalensis (Günther, 1864))
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Sciades guatemalensis (Günther, 1864))
To FishBase (from synonym Arius guatemalensis Günther, 1864)
To FishBase (from synonym Arius caerulescens Günther, 1864)
To FishBase (from synonym Galeichthys azureus Jordan & Williams, 1895)
To FishBase (from synonym Galeichthys guatemalensis (Günther, 1864))
To FishBase (from synonym Hexanematichthys guatemalensis (Günther, 1864))
To FishBase (from synonym Tachisurus guatemalensis (Günther, 1864))
To FishBase (from synonym Galeichthys coerulescens (Günther, 1864))
To FishBase (from synonym Hexanematichthys coerulescens (Günther, 1864))
To FishBase (from synonym Tachisurus coerulescens (Günther, 1864))
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Tachisurus guatemalensis (Günther, 1864))
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Galeichthys guatemalensis (Günther, 1864))
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Hexanematichthys guatemalensis (Günther, 1864))
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Arius guatemalensis Günther, 1864)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Sciades guatemalensis (Günther, 1864))
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) (from synonym Sciades guatemalensis (Günther, 1864))
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Arius caerulescens Günther, 1864; SYNTYPE(S); NHMUK:ecatalogue:2596120) (from synonym Arius caerulescens Günther, 1864)
To NHMUK collection (Arius guatemalensis Günther, 1864; SYNTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:2584606) (from synonym Arius guatemalensis Günther, 1864)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Arius caerulescens RAD118179-001) (from synonym Arius caerulescens Günther, 1864)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Arius caerulescens RAD118179-002) (from synonym Arius caerulescens Günther, 1864)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Arius guatemalensis RAD115889-001) (from synonym Arius guatemalensis Günther, 1864)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Arius guatemalensis RAD115889-002) (from synonym Arius guatemalensis Günther, 1864)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Galeichthys azureus RAD117914-001) (from synonym Galeichthys azureus Jordan & Williams, 1895)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Galeichthys azureus RAD117914-002) (from synonym Galeichthys azureus Jordan & Williams, 1895)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Sciades guatemalensis RAD118175-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Sciades guatemalensis RAD118175-002)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Sciades guatemalensis RAD118177-001) (from synonym Sciades guatemalensis (Günther, 1864))
To NMNH Extant Collection (Sciades guatemalensis RAD118177-002) (from synonym Sciades guatemalensis (Günther, 1864))
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Galeichthys azureus Jordan & Williams, 1895)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications) (from synonym Galeichthys guatemalensis (Günther, 1864))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Galeichthys coerulescens (Günther, 1864))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Tachisurus coerulescens (Günther, 1864))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Tachisurus guatemalensis (Günther, 1864))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Arius caerulescens Günther, 1864)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Sciades guatemalensis (Günther, 1864))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Sciades guatemalensis) (from synonym Sciades guatemalensis (Günther, 1864))
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Sciades guatemalensis (Günther, 1864))
To FishBase (from synonym Arius guatemalensis Günther, 1864)
To FishBase (from synonym Arius caerulescens Günther, 1864)
To FishBase (from synonym Galeichthys azureus Jordan & Williams, 1895)
To FishBase (from synonym Galeichthys guatemalensis (Günther, 1864))
To FishBase (from synonym Hexanematichthys guatemalensis (Günther, 1864))
To FishBase (from synonym Tachisurus guatemalensis (Günther, 1864))
To FishBase (from synonym Galeichthys coerulescens (Günther, 1864))
To FishBase (from synonym Hexanematichthys coerulescens (Günther, 1864))
To FishBase (from synonym Tachisurus coerulescens (Günther, 1864))
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Tachisurus guatemalensis (Günther, 1864))
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Galeichthys guatemalensis (Günther, 1864))
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Hexanematichthys guatemalensis (Günther, 1864))
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Arius guatemalensis Günther, 1864)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Sciades guatemalensis (Günther, 1864))
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) (from synonym Sciades guatemalensis (Günther, 1864))
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Arius caerulescens Günther, 1864; SYNTYPE(S); NHMUK:ecatalogue:2596120) (from synonym Arius caerulescens Günther, 1864)
To NHMUK collection (Arius guatemalensis Günther, 1864; SYNTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:2584606) (from synonym Arius guatemalensis Günther, 1864)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Arius caerulescens RAD118179-001) (from synonym Arius caerulescens Günther, 1864)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Arius caerulescens RAD118179-002) (from synonym Arius caerulescens Günther, 1864)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Arius guatemalensis RAD115889-001) (from synonym Arius guatemalensis Günther, 1864)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Arius guatemalensis RAD115889-002) (from synonym Arius guatemalensis Günther, 1864)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Galeichthys azureus RAD117914-001) (from synonym Galeichthys azureus Jordan & Williams, 1895)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Galeichthys azureus RAD117914-002) (from synonym Galeichthys azureus Jordan & Williams, 1895)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Sciades guatemalensis RAD118175-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Sciades guatemalensis RAD118175-002)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Sciades guatemalensis RAD118177-001) (from synonym Sciades guatemalensis (Günther, 1864))
To NMNH Extant Collection (Sciades guatemalensis RAD118177-002) (from synonym Sciades guatemalensis (Günther, 1864))
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Unreviewed
