Marine Species Traits - Lonchopisthus Gill, 1862

WoRMS taxon details

Lonchopisthus Gill, 1862

AphiaID

269721 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:269721)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Opistognathidae Bonaparte, 1835

Synonymised names

Lonchistium Myers, 1935 · unaccepted

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Species Lonchopisthus ancistrus Smith-Vaniz & Walsh, 2017
Species Lonchopisthus higmani Mead, 1959
Species Lonchopisthus lemur (Myers, 1935)
Species Lonchopisthus micrognathus (Poey, 1860)
Species Lonchopisthus sinuscalifornicus Castro-Aguirre & Villavicencio-Garayzar, 1988
Species Lonchopisthus lindneri Ginsburg, 1942 accepted as Lonchopisthus micrognathus (Poey, 1860) (synonym)
Species Lonchopisthus meadi Menezes & Lima de Figueiredo, 1971 accepted as Lonchopisthus lemur (Myers, 1935)
Species Lonchopisthus vanderbilti Mowbray, 1928 accepted as Lonchopisthus micrognathus (Poey, 1860)

Environment

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

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Lonchopisthus Gill, 1862. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=269721 on 2025-06-02

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-15 10:18:16Z

created

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description (of Lonchistium Myers, 1935) Myers, G. S. (1935). A new genus of opisthognathid fishes. <em>Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections.</em> v. 91 (no. 23): 1-5. [details]

Taxonomy

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

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

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