Marine Species Traits - Apodichthys Girard, 1854

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Apodichthys Girard, 1854

AphiaID

268359 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:268359)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Pholidae Gill, 1893

Synonymised names

Ulvicola Gilbert & Starks, 1897 · unaccepted

Xererpes Jordan & Gilbert, 1895 · unaccepted

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Species Apodichthys flavidus Girard, 1854
Species Apodichthys fucorum Jordan & Gilbert, 1880
Species Apodichthys inornatus Gill, 1862 accepted as Apodichthys flavidus Girard, 1854
Species Apodichthys sanctaerosae (Gilbert & Starks, 1897) accepted as Ulvicola sanctaerosae Gilbert & Starks, 1897 (Reverted to original combination)
Species Apodichthys sanguineus Gill, 1862 accepted as Apodichthys flavidus Girard, 1854
Species Apodichthys univittatus Lockington, 1881 accepted as Apodichthys flavidus Girard, 1854 (synonym)
Species Apodichthys violaceus Girard, 1854 accepted as Cebidichthys violaceus (Girard, 1854)
Species Apodichthys virescens Ayres, 1855 accepted as Apodichthys flavidus Girard, 1854

Environment

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

Original description

Girard, C. F. (1854). Observations upon a collection of fishes made on the Pacific coast of the United States, by Lieut. W. P. Trowbridge, U. S. A., for the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 7: 142-156. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Apodichthys Girard, 1854. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=268359 on 2025-06-09

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-15 10:18:16Z

created

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Girard, C. F. (1854). Observations upon a collection of fishes made on the Pacific coast of the United States, by Lieut. W. P. Trowbridge, U. S. A., for the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 7: 142-156. [details]

original description (of Ulvicola Gilbert & Starks, 1897) Gilbert, C. H. (1897). Descriptions of twenty-two new species of fishes collected by the steamer Albatross, of the United States Fish Commission. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. v. 19 (no. 1115): 437-457, Pls. 49-55. [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]

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Introduced: alien

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To Catalog of Fishes (from synonym Ulvicola Gilbert & Starks, 1897)
To Catalog of Fishes (from synonym Xererpes Jordan & Gilbert, 1895)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Apodichthys)
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