WoRMS taxon details
Opistognathus macrolepis Peters, 1866
276464 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:276464)
accepted
Species
Merogymnoides carpentariae Whitley, 1966 · unaccepted
Opisthognathus macrolepis Peters, 1866 · unaccepted (misspelling)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Peters, W. (C. H.). (1866). Mittheilung über Fische (Protopterus, Auliscops, Labrax, Labracoglossa, Nematocentris, Serranus, Scorpis, Opisthognathus, Scombresox, Acharnes, Anguilla, Gymnomuraena, Chilorhinus, Ophichthys, Helmichthys). <em>Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1866.</em> : 509-526, 1 pl. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Opistognathus macrolepis Peters, 1866. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=276464 on 2025-04-25
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Nomenclature
original description
Peters, W. (C. H.). (1866). Mittheilung über Fische (Protopterus, Auliscops, Labrax, Labracoglossa, Nematocentris, Serranus, Scorpis, Opisthognathus, Scombresox, Acharnes, Anguilla, Gymnomuraena, Chilorhinus, Ophichthys, Helmichthys). <em>Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1866.</em> : 509-526, 1 pl. [details]
original description (of Merogymnoides carpentariae Whitley, 1966) Whitley, G. P. (1966). Notes on some Queensland fishes. <em>Australian Zoologist.</em> v. 13 (pt 3): 235-243, Pls. 13-14. [details]
original description (of Merogymnoides carpentariae Whitley, 1966) Whitley, G. P. (1966). Notes on some Queensland fishes. <em>Australian Zoologist.</em> v. 13 (pt 3): 235-243, Pls. 13-14. [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 (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Merogymnoides carpentariae Whitley, 1966)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Opisthognathus macrolepis Peters, 1866)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Opistognathus macrolepis)
To FishBase (from synonym Merogymnoides carpentariae Whitley, 1966)
To FishBase (from synonym Opisthognathus macrolepis Peters, 1866)
To FishBase
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins) (from synonym Opisthognathus macrolepis Peters, 1866)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Merogymnoides carpentariae Whitley, 1966)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Opisthognathus macrolepis Peters, 1866)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Opistognathus macrolepis)
To FishBase (from synonym Merogymnoides carpentariae Whitley, 1966)
To FishBase (from synonym Opisthognathus macrolepis Peters, 1866)
To FishBase
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins) (from synonym Opisthognathus macrolepis Peters, 1866)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To ITIS
