WoRMS

WoRMS taxon details

Goniistius Gill, 1862

AphiaID

269256 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:269256)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Cheilodactylidae Bonaparte, 1850

Synonymised names

Zeodrius Castelnau, 1879 · unaccepted

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Species Goniistius francisi (Burridge, 2004)
Species Goniistius gibbosus (Richardson, 1841)
Species Goniistius plessisi (Randall, 1983)
Species Goniistius quadricornis (Günther, 1860)
Species Goniistius rubrolabiatus (Allen & Heemstra, 1976)
Species Goniistius vestitus (Castelnau, 1879)
Species Goniistius vittatus (Garrett, 1864)
Species Goniistius zebra (Döderlein, 1883)
Species Goniistius zonatus (Cuvier, 1830)
Species Goniistius ephippium (McCulloch & Waite, 1916) accepted as Morwong ephippium (McCulloch & Waite, 1916)
Species Goniistius fuscus (Castelnau, 1879) accepted as Morwong fuscus (Castelnau, 1879)
Species Goniistius plesisi (Randall, 1983) accepted as Goniistius plessisi (Randall, 1983) (misspelling)
Species Goniistius spectabilis (Hutton, 1872) accepted as Chirodactylus spectabilis (Hutton, 1872)
Species Goniistius vizonarius (Saville-Kent, 1887) accepted as Pseudogoniistius nigripes (Richardson, 1850)

Environment

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

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Goniistius Gill, 1862. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=269256 on 2025-03-26

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-15 10:18:16Z

created

Bailly, Nicolas

2013-02-28 07:03:44Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

2020-12-09 07:10:54Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

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Nomenclature

original description (of Zeodrius Castelnau, 1879) Castelnau, F. L. (1879). Essay on the ichthyology of Port Jackson. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> v. 3 (pt 4): 347-402. [details]

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]