WoRMS taxon details
Microdesmus bahianus Dawson, 1973
276223 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:276223)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Dawson, C. E. (1973). Microdesmus bahianus, a new western Atlantic wormfish (Pisces, Microdesmidae). <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 86 (17): 203-209. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Microdesmus bahianus Dawson, 1973. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=276223 on 2025-04-16
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Nomenclature
original description
Dawson, C. E. (1973). Microdesmus bahianus, a new western Atlantic wormfish (Pisces, Microdesmidae). <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 86 (17): 203-209. [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
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 (1 publication)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Microdesmus bahianus)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Microdesmus bahianus, Brazil, by Macieira, R.M.)
To GenBank (19 nucleotides; 17 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Microdesmus bahianus FIN035245 Slide 35 mm)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Microdesmus bahianus)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Microdesmus bahianus, Brazil, by Macieira, R.M.)
To GenBank (19 nucleotides; 17 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Microdesmus bahianus FIN035245 Slide 35 mm)
To ITIS
