WoRMS taxon details
Olisthops cyanomelas Richardson, 1850
319734 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:319734)
accepted
Species
Olisthops Richardson, 1850 accepted as Odax Valenciennes, 1840
Odax cyanomelas (Richardson, 1850) · unaccepted
Odax nebulosus Saville-Kent, 1893 · unaccepted
Olistherops brownii Johnston, 1884 · unaccepted
Olistherops brunneus MacLeay, 1878 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Richardson, J. (1850). Notices of Australian fish. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1850.</em> (pt 18) (art. 1) (for 9 Apr. 1850): 58-77, Pls. 1-3. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Olisthops cyanomelas Richardson, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=319734 on 2025-04-18
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Nomenclature
original description
Richardson, J. (1850). Notices of Australian fish. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1850.</em> (pt 18) (art. 1) (for 9 Apr. 1850): 58-77, Pls. 1-3. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [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] 
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Odax nebulosus Saville-Kent, 1893)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Olistherops brunneus MacLeay, 1878)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Odax cyanomelas (Richardson, 1850))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Olistherops brownii Johnston, 1884)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Olisthops cyanomelas)
To FishBase (from synonym Olistherops brunneus MacLeay, 1878)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Olistherops brownii Johnston, 1884)
To FishBase (from synonym Odax cyanomelas (Richardson, 1850))
To FishBase (from synonym Odax nebulosus Saville-Kent, 1893)
To FishBase images (Odax cyanomelas, Australia, by Cook, D.C.) (from synonym Odax cyanomelas (Richardson, 1850))
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 32 proteins) (from synonym Odax cyanomelas (Richardson, 1850))
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 32 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Odax cyanomelas RAD107325-001) (from synonym Odax cyanomelas (Richardson, 1850))
To NMNH Extant Collection (Odax cyanomelas RAD107325-001) (from synonym Odax cyanomelas (Richardson, 1850))
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Odax nebulosus Saville-Kent, 1893)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Olistherops brunneus MacLeay, 1878)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Odax cyanomelas (Richardson, 1850))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Olistherops brownii Johnston, 1884)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Olisthops cyanomelas)
To FishBase (from synonym Olistherops brunneus MacLeay, 1878)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Olistherops brownii Johnston, 1884)
To FishBase (from synonym Odax cyanomelas (Richardson, 1850))
To FishBase (from synonym Odax nebulosus Saville-Kent, 1893)
To FishBase images (Odax cyanomelas, Australia, by Cook, D.C.) (from synonym Odax cyanomelas (Richardson, 1850))
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 32 proteins) (from synonym Odax cyanomelas (Richardson, 1850))
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 32 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Odax cyanomelas RAD107325-001) (from synonym Odax cyanomelas (Richardson, 1850))
To NMNH Extant Collection (Odax cyanomelas RAD107325-001) (from synonym Odax cyanomelas (Richardson, 1850))
To ITIS
