African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Istigobius spence (Smith, 1947)

AfReMaS taxon details

Istigobius spence (Smith, 1947)

AphiaID

219506 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:219506)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Istigobius Whitley, 1932

Original name

Gobius spence Smith, 1947

Synonymised names

Acentrogobius aestuarius Smith, 1959 · unaccepted

Acentrogobius spence (Smith, 1947) · unaccepted

Gobius spence Smith, 1947 · unaccepted

Environment

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

Original description

(of Gobius spence Smith, 1947) Smith, J. L. B. (1947). New species and new records of fishes from South Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 11). v. 13 (no. 108) (art. 77): 793-821. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2021). FishBase. Istigobius spence (Smith, 1947). Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2021) African Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=219506 on 2026-08-03

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Istigobius spence (Smith, 1947). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=219506 on 2026-08-03

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-02-24 18:26:33Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2008-01-15 17:27:08Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

[taxonomic tree] [clear cache]

original description (of Gobius spence Smith, 1947) Smith, J. L. B. (1947). New species and new records of fishes from South Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 11). v. 13 (no. 108) (art. 77): 793-821. [details]

original description (of Acentrogobius aestuarius Smith, 1959) Smith, J. L. B. (1959). Gobioid fishes of the families Gobiidae, Periophthalmidae, Trypauchenidae, Taenioididae and Kraemeriidae of the western Indian Ocean. Ichthyological Bulletin, Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University. 13: 185-225, Pls. 9-13. [details]

basis of record Smith, J. L. B.; Smith, M. M. (1963). The fishes of Seychelles. 1st edition. Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown. i-viii + 1-215, Pls. 1-98. [details]

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]

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]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Acentrogobius aestuarius Smith, 1959)
To FishBase (from synonym Acentrogobius aestuarius Smith, 1959)
To FishBase (from synonym Acentrogobius spence (Smith, 1947))
To FishBase (from synonym Gobius spence Smith, 1947)
To FishBase
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Istigobius spence FIN028683 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS

Unreviewed

To NMNH Extant Collection (Istigobius spence FIN028683 Slide 120 mm)

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