Marine Species Traits - Opistognathus cuvierii Valenciennes, 1836

WoRMS taxon details

Opistognathus cuvierii Valenciennes, 1836

To FishBase images (<i>Opistognathus cuvieri</i>, Brazil, by Menezes, N.A./Figueiredo, J.L.)

To FishBase images (Opistognathus cuvieri, Brazil, by Menezes, N.A./Figueiredo, J.L.)

AphiaID

276445 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:276445)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Opistognathus Cuvier, 1816

Original name

Opistognathus cuvierii Valenciennes, 1836

Synonymised names

Gnathypops cuvieri (Valenciennes, 1836) · unaccepted (misspelling)

Opisthognathus cuvieri Valenciennes, 1836 · unaccepted (misspelling)

Opisthognathus cuvierii Valenciennes, 1836 · unaccepted (synonym)

Opistognathus cuvieri Valenciennes, 1836 · unaccepted (misspelling)

Environment

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

Original description

Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1836). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome onzième. Livre treizième. De la famille des Mugiloïdes. Livre quatorzième. De la famille des Gobioïdes. v. 11: i-xx + 1-506 + 2 pp., Pls. 307-343. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Opistognathus cuvierii Valenciennes, 1836. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=276445 on 2025-05-28

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-15 17:27:08Z

created

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

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

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Nomenclature

original description Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1836). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome onzième. Livre treizième. De la famille des Mugiloïdes. Livre quatorzième. De la famille des Gobioïdes. v. 11: i-xx + 1-506 + 2 pp., Pls. 307-343. [details]

original description (of Opisthognathus cuvierii Valenciennes, 1836) Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1836). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome onzième. Livre treizième. De la famille des Mugiloïdes. Livre quatorzième. De la famille des Gobioïdes. v. 11: i-xx + 1-506 + 2 pp., Pls. 307-343. [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

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]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Opistognathus cuvieri Valenciennes, 1836)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Gnathypops cuvieri (Valenciennes, 1836))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Opisthognathus cuvieri Valenciennes, 1836)
To FishBase (from synonym Opisthognathus cuvierii Valenciennes, 1836)
To FishBase (from synonym Opistognathus cuvieri Valenciennes, 1836)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Opisthognathus cuvieri Valenciennes, 1836)
To FishBase (from synonym Gnathypops cuvieri (Valenciennes, 1836))
To FishBase images (Opistognathus cuvieri, Brazil, by Menezes, N.A./Figueiredo, J.L.) (from synonym Opistognathus cuvieri Valenciennes, 1836)
To ITIS

From editor or global species database

To FishBase images (Opistognathus cuvieri, Brazil, by Menezes, N.A./Figueiredo, J.L.)

Hosted externally, from synonym