World Register of Deep-Sea species - Xiphasia Swainson, 1839

Deep-Sea taxon details

Xiphasia Swainson, 1839

AphiaID

204020 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204020)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Blenniinae Rafinesque, 1810

Direct children (1)

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Species Xiphasia matsubarai Okada & Suzuki, 1952

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Swainson, W. (1839). On the natural history and classification of fishes, amphibians, & reptiles, or monocardian animals. Spottiswoode & Co., London. v. 2: i-vi + 1-452. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Xiphasia Swainson, 1839. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204020 on 2025-05-24

Thematic species database citation

Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Xiphasia Swainson, 1839. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204020 on 2025-05-24

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-06-06 22:00:00Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2006-09-05 10:37:23Z

changed

Renders, Kristel

2012-11-14 10:59:38Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

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original description Swainson, W. (1839). On the natural history and classification of fishes, amphibians, & reptiles, or monocardian animals. Spottiswoode & Co., London. v. 2: i-vi + 1-452. [details]

taxonomy source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone]. , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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Language	Name
Japanese	ウナギギンポ属	[details]

To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Catalog of Fishes
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Xiphasia)
To Genbank
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