MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Gymnothorax polygonius Poey, 1875

WoRMS taxon details

Gymnothorax polygonius Poey, 1875

To FishBase images (<i>Gymnothorax polygonius</i>, Madeira Is., by Wirtz, P.)

To FishBase images (Gymnothorax polygonius, Madeira Is., by Wirtz, P.)

AphiaID

126300 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126300)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Gymnothorax Bloch, 1795

Original name

Gymnothorax polygonius Poey, 1875

Synonymised names

Lycodontis polygonius (Poey, 1875) · unaccepted

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Poey, F. (1875). Poissons de l'île de Cuba. Espèces nouvelles décrites. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. v. 11 (nos 3-4) (art. 6): 58-70, Pls. 7-10. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Gymnothorax polygonius Poey, 1875. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126300 on 2025-05-09

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2008-01-15 17:27:08Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Poey, F. (1875). Poissons de l'île de Cuba. Espèces nouvelles décrites. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. v. 11 (nos 3-4) (art. 6): 58-70, Pls. 7-10. [details]

basis of record van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [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. Scientific Data. 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 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]