WoRMS taxon details
Cerdale floridana Longley, 1934
280084 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:280084)
accepted
Species
Microdesmus floridana (Longley, 1934) · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Longley, W. H.; Hildebrand, S. F. (1940). New genera and species of fishes from Tortugas, Florida. <em>Papers Tortugas Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington.</em> 32: 223-285, Pl. 1. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Cerdale floridana Longley, 1934. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=280084 on 2025-04-07
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Nomenclature
original description
Longley, W. H.; Hildebrand, S. F. (1940). New genera and species of fishes from Tortugas, Florida. <em>Papers Tortugas Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington.</em> 32: 223-285, Pl. 1. [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 (Bermuda)
Smith-Vaniz, W. F.; Collette, B. B.; Luckhurst, B. E (1999). Fishes of Bermuda: History, zoogeography, annotated checklist, and identification keys
(American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists - Special Publication No.4)
. ASIH, 424 pp. [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]
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
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | pugjaw wormfish | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (12 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cerdale floridana)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Microdesmus floridana (Longley, 1934))
To FishBase images (Cerdale floridana, Belize, by Smith, D.G.)
To GenBank (16 nucleotides; 16 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Microdesmus floridanus P13580 illustration)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cerdale floridana)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Microdesmus floridana (Longley, 1934))
To FishBase images (Cerdale floridana, Belize, by Smith, D.G.)
To GenBank (16 nucleotides; 16 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Microdesmus floridanus P13580 illustration)
To ITIS
