WoRMS taxon details
Heterostichus rostratus Girard, 1854
281075 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:281075)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Girard, C. F. (1854). Observations upon a collection of fishes made on the Pacific coast of the United States, by Lieut. W. P. Trowbridge, U. S. A., for the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 7: 142-156. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Heterostichus rostratus Girard, 1854. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=281075 on 2025-04-01
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Nomenclature
original description
Girard, C. F. (1854). Observations upon a collection of fishes made on the Pacific coast of the United States, by Lieut. W. P. Trowbridge, U. S. A., for the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 7: 142-156. [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]





To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (54 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Heterostichus rostratus)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Heterostichus rostratus, USA, by Steele, M.A.)
To GenBank (27 nucleotides; 18 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Gibbonsia elegans elegans USNM 034775 radiograph lateral view)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Heterostichus rostratus RAD111373-001)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (54 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Heterostichus rostratus)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Heterostichus rostratus, USA, by Steele, M.A.)
To GenBank (27 nucleotides; 18 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Gibbonsia elegans elegans USNM 034775 radiograph lateral view)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Heterostichus rostratus RAD111373-001)
To ITIS