Marine Species Traits - Porichthys Girard, 1854

WoRMS taxon details

Porichthys Girard, 1854

AphiaID

158783 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158783)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Porichthyinae Miranda Ribeiro, 1915

Synonymised names

Poricthys · unaccepted (misspelling)

Direct children (18)

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Species Porichthys analis Hubbs & Schultz, 1939
Species Porichthys bathoiketes Gilbert, 1968
Species Porichthys ephippiatus Walker & Rosenblatt, 1988
Species Porichthys greenei Gilbert & Starks, 1904
Species Porichthys kymosemeum Gilbert, 1968
Species Porichthys margaritatus (Richardson, 1844)
Species Porichthys mimeticus Walker & Rosenblatt, 1988
Species Porichthys myriaster Hubbs & Schultz, 1939
Species Porichthys notatus Girard, 1854
Species Porichthys oculellus Walker & Rosenblatt, 1988
Species Porichthys oculofrenum Gilbert, 1968
Species Porichthys pauciradiatus Caldwell & Caldwell, 1963
Species Porichthys plectrodon Jordan & Gilbert, 1882
Species Porichthys porosissimus (Cuvier, 1829)
Species Porichthys afuerae Evermann & Radcliffe, 1917 accepted as Aphos porosus (Valenciennes, 1837)
Species Porichthys nautopaedium Jordan & Bollman, 1890 accepted as Porichthys margaritatus (Richardson, 1844)
Species Porichthys porossissimus (Cuvier, 1829) accepted as Porichthys porosissimus (Cuvier, 1829) (misspelling)
Species Porichthys queenslandiae De Vis, 1882 accepted as Halophryne queenslandiae (De Vis, 1882)

Environment

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

Original description

Girard, C. F. (1854). Enumeration of the species of marine fishes, collected at San Francisco, California, by Dr. C. B. R. Kennerly, naturalist attached to the survey of the Pacific railroad route, under Lieut. A. W. Whipple. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. v. 7: 141-142. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Porichthys Girard, 1854. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158783 on 2025-06-07

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-05-27 07:39:43Z

created

Cuvelier, Daphne

2013-01-04 15:09:25Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Girard, C. F. (1854). Enumeration of the species of marine fishes, collected at San Francisco, California, by Dr. C. B. R. Kennerly, naturalist attached to the survey of the Pacific railroad route, under Lieut. A. W. Whipple. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. v. 7: 141-142. [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]

Taxonomy

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]

Other

context source (PeRMS) Chirichigno, N.; Cornejo, M. (2001). Catálogo comentado de los peces marinos del Perú. 2ª ed. Instituto del Mar de Perú. Publicación Especial. Callao. 314 p. [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

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Language	Name
Japanese	イサリビガマアンコウ属	[details]

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