WoRMS taxon details
Enneapterygius nigricauda Fricke, 1997
277326 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:277326)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fricke, R. (1997). Tripterygiid fishes of the western and central Pacific, with descriptions of 15 new species, including an annotated checklist of world Tripterygiidae (Teleostei). <em>Theses Zool.</em> 29: 1-607. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Enneapterygius nigricauda Fricke, 1997. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=277326 on 2026-06-08
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Nomenclature
original description
Fricke, R. (1997). Tripterygiid fishes of the western and central Pacific, with descriptions of 15 new species, including an annotated checklist of world Tripterygiidae (Teleostei). <em>Theses Zool.</em> 29: 1-607. [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 (4 barcodes)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Enneapterygius nigricauda)
To FishBase
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Enneapterygius nigricauda USNM 331035 holotype photograph lateral view)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Enneapterygius nigricauda USNM 331035 holotype radiograph lateral view)
To ITIS
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Enneapterygius nigricauda)
To FishBase
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Enneapterygius nigricauda USNM 331035 holotype photograph lateral view)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Enneapterygius nigricauda USNM 331035 holotype radiograph lateral view)
To ITIS