WoRMS taxon details
Anguilla obscura Günther, 1872
271710 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:271710)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Günther, A. (1872). Report on several collections of fishes recently obtained for the British Museum. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1871.</em> (pt 3) (art. 1) : 652-675, Pls. 53-70. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Anguilla obscura Günther, 1872. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=271710 on 2025-04-17
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Nomenclature
original description
Günther, A. (1872). Report on several collections of fishes recently obtained for the British Museum. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1871.</em> (pt 3) (art. 1) : 652-675, Pls. 53-70. [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. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
context source (RAS)
Australian Antarctic Data Centre. , available online at https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/ [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 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
To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Anguilla obscura)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Anguilla obscura, New Caledonia, by IRD/C. Ledru)
To GenBank (43367 nucleotides; 17 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Anguilla obscura)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Anguilla obscura, New Caledonia, by IRD/C. Ledru)
To GenBank (43367 nucleotides; 17 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
To ITIS
