Marine Species Traits - Macroramphosus gracilis (Lowe, 1839)

(of Centriscus gracilis Lowe, 1839) Lowe, R. T. (1839). A supplement to a synopsis of the fishes of Madeira. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1839 (pt 7): 76-92. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Macroramphosus gracilis (Lowe, 1839). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=275181 on 2025-06-07

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-15 17:27:08Z

created

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Centriscus gracilis Lowe, 1839) Lowe, R. T. (1839). A supplement to a synopsis of the fishes of Madeira. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1839 (pt 7): 76-92. [details]

original description (of Centriscus velitaris Pallas, 1770) Pallas, P. S. (1770). Spicilegia Zoologica quibus novae imprimis et obscurae animalium species iconibus, descriptionibus atque commentariis illustrantur. Berolini, Gottl. August. Lange. v. 1 (fasc. 8): 1-56, Pls. 1-5. [Also v. 1 (fasc. 7), 1769, pp. 1-42, Pls. 1-6.]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27817654
page(s): 36, Pl. 4 (fig. 8) [details]

original description (of Macrorhamphosus molleri Whitley, 1930) Whitley, G. P. (1930). Additions to the check-list of the fishes of New South Wales. (No. 3). Australian Zoologist. v. 6 (pt 2): 117-123, Pl. 14. [details]

original description (of Centriscus japonicus Günther, 1861) Günther, A. (1861). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. Gobiidae, Discoboli, Pediculati, Blenniidae, Labyrinthici, Mugilidae, Notacanthi. London. v. 3: i-xxv + 1-586 + i-x. [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. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]

Other

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

Language	Name
English	slender snipefish	[details]
Japanese	ダイコクサギフエ [from synonym]	[details]
Spanish	trompetero flaco	[details]

To Barcode of Life (17 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) (from synonym Macrorhamphosus gracilis (Lowe, 1839))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (40 publications) (from synonym Centriscus gracilis Lowe, 1839)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (50 publications) (from synonym Centriscus velitaris Pallas, 1770)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Macrorhamphosus hawaiiensis Gilbert, 1905)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Macroramphosus gracilis)
To FishBase (from synonym Macroramphosus velitaris (Pallas, 1770))
To FishBase (from synonym Centriscus gracilis Lowe, 1839)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Macrorhamphosus molleri Whitley, 1930)
To FishBase (from synonym Macrorhamphosus hawaiiensis Gilbert, 1905)
To FishBase (from synonym Macrorhamphosus gracilis (Lowe, 1839))
To FishBase (from synonym Centriscus velitaris Pallas, 1770)
To FishBase images (Macroramphosus gracilis, by NOAA\NMFS\Mississippi Laboratory)
To GenBank (64 nucleotides; 38 proteins)
To GenBank (64 nucleotides; 38 proteins) (from synonym Centriscus gracilis Lowe, 1839)
To GenBank (64 nucleotides; 38 proteins) (from synonym Macroramphosus japonicus (Günther, 1861))
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To ITIS

From editor or global species database

$To FishBase images (Macroramphosus gracilis, by NOAA\NMFS\Mississippi Laboratory)$

To FishBase images (Macroramphosus gracilis, by NOAA\NMFS\Mississippi Laboratory)

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