World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS) - Acropoma japonicum Günther, 1859

WRiMS taxon details

Acropoma japonicum Günther, 1859

AphiaID

220048 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:220048)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Acropoma Temminck & Schlegel, 1843

Original name

Acropoma japonicum Günther, 1859

Synonymised names

Synagrops japonicus (Günther, 1859) · unaccepted

Environment

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

Original description

Günther, A. (1859). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. Gasterosteidae, Berycidae, Percidae, Aphredoderidae, Pristipomatidae, Mullidae, Sparidae. London. v. 1: i-xxxi + 1-524., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.8809 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Acropoma japonicum Günther, 1859. Accessed through: Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stepien, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2025) World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS) at: https://marinespecies.org/introduced./aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220048 on 2026-04-27

Thematic species database citation

Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stępień, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2026). World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS). Acropoma japonicum Günther, 1859. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/Introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220048 on 2026-04-27

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-02-24 18:26:33Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2008-01-15 17:27:08Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

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[clear cache]

original description Günther, A. (1859). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. Gasterosteidae, Berycidae, Percidae, Aphredoderidae, Pristipomatidae, Mullidae, Sparidae. London. v. 1: i-xxxi + 1-524., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.8809 [details]

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

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

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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 Barcode of Life (19 barcodes)
To Barcode of Life (47 barcodes) (from synonym Synagrops japonicus (Günther, 1859))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Synagrops japonicus (Günther, 1859))
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Synagrops japonicus (Günther, 1859))
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Acropoma japonicum)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Synagrops japonicus) (from synonym Synagrops japonicus (Günther, 1859))
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Synagrops japonicus (Günther, 1859))
To GenBank (39 nucleotides; 53 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Acropoma japonicum RAD105548-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Acropoma japonicum RAD105548-002)
To ITIS

Unreviewed

To NMNH Extant Collection (Acropoma japonicum RAD105548-001)

Hosted externally

To NMNH Extant Collection (Acropoma japonicum RAD105548-002)

Hosted externally