WoRMS taxon details
Stereolepis gigas Ayres, 1859
282884 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:282884)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Ayres, W. O. (1859). [Descriptions of fishes.]. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 1).</em> v. 2 (1858-1862): 25-32. [Read at meeting of 17 Oct. 1859, assume published in 1859. Accompanying figures 4-10, pp. 54-59, published in 1860.]. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Stereolepis gigas Ayres, 1859. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=282884 on 2025-04-22
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Nomenclature
original description
Ayres, W. O. (1859). [Descriptions of fishes.]. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 1).</em> v. 2 (1858-1862): 25-32. [Read at meeting of 17 Oct. 1859, assume published in 1859. Accompanying figures 4-10, pp. 54-59, published in 1860.]. [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
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | Califomische grote zaagbaars | [details] |
| English | giant seabassgiant sea bassBlack pacific jewfish | [details] |
| French | bar gigantesque | [details] |
| German | Kalifornischer Judenfisch | [details] |
| Japanese | コクチイシナギ | [details] |
| Russian | Окунь гигантский морской | [details] |
| Spanish | pescara | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (114 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Stereolepis gigas)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Stereolepis gigas, USA, by John Warren)
To FishSounds
To GenBank (38 nucleotides; 25 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Critically Endangered)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Stereolepis gigas P15885 illustration)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (114 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Stereolepis gigas)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Stereolepis gigas, USA, by John Warren)
To FishSounds
To GenBank (38 nucleotides; 25 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Critically Endangered)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Stereolepis gigas P15885 illustration)
To ITIS
