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Echiichthys vipera (Cuvier, 1829)

To FishBase images (<i>Echiichthys vipera</i>, Azores Is., by Wirtz, P.)

To FishBase images (Echiichthys vipera, Azores Is., by Wirtz, P.)

AphiaID

150630 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:150630)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Echiichthys Bleeker, 1861

Original name

Trachinus vipera Cuvier, 1829

Synonymised names

Trachinus vipera Cuvier, 1829 · unaccepted (synonym)

Environment

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

Original description

(of Trachinus vipera Cuvier, 1829) Cuvier, G. (1829). Le Règne Animal distribué, d'apres son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. [The Animal Kingdom, arranged according to its organization, to serve as a basis for the natural history of animals and as an introduction to comparative anatomy]. Déterville, Paris. Edition 2. v. 2: i-xv + 1-406., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31771348 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Echiichthys vipera (Cuvier, 1829). Accessed through: VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010 onwards) Belgian Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/berms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=150630 on 2025-04-05

Regional species database citation

VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010 onwards). Belgian Register of Marine Species. Echiichthys vipera (Cuvier, 1829). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/berms./aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=150630 on 2025-04-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-04-05 07:39:03Z

created

Claus, Simon

2008-01-15 17:27:08Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of Trachinus vipera Cuvier, 1829) Cuvier, G. (1829). Le Règne Animal distribué, d'apres son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. [The Animal Kingdom, arranged according to its organization, to serve as a basis for the natural history of animals and as an introduction to comparative anatomy]. Déterville, Paris. Edition 2. v. 2: i-xv + 1-406., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31771348 [details]

context source (Schelde) Maris, T., O. Beauchard, S. Van Damme, E. Van den Bergh, S. Wijnhoven & P. Meire. (2013). Referentiematrices en Ecotoopoppervlaktes Annex bij de Evaluatiemethodiek Schelde-estuarium Studie naar “Ecotoopoppervlaktes en intactness index”. [Reference matrices and Ecotope areas Annex to the Evaluation methodology Scheldt estuary Study on “Ecotope areas and intactness index”. Monitor Taskforce Publication Series, 2013-01. NIOZ: Yerseke. 35 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

context source (BeRMS 2020) Fish trawl survey: ICES Beam Trawl Survey for commercial fish species. ICES Database of trawl surveys (DATRAS). The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Copenhagen. 2010., available online at http://ecosystemdata.ices.dk [details]

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

additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [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

Language	Name
Albanian	ranxha viperdreqi i vogël i detit	[details]
Breton	braok lano [from synonym]beverez vihan [from synonym]	[details]
Danish	lille fjæsing	[details]
Dutch	kleine pieterman	[details]
English	lesser weever	[details]
Finnish	pikkulouhikala	[details]
French	toquetpetite vivepetite vie [from synonym]	[details]
German	ZwergpetermännchenViperqueisePetermännchenKleines Petermännchen	[details]
Hebrew	דרקון צפעי	[details]
Italian	tracina viperatracina ragno	[details]
Modern Greek (1453-)	Μικροδράκαιναδράκαινα	[details]
Norwegian Bokmål	dvergfjesing	[details]
Norwegian Nynorsk	dvergfjesing	[details]
Portuguese	peixe-aranha menor	[details]
Spanish	salvariego [from synonym]escorpiónaranya	[details]
Swedish	mindre fjärsing	[details]
Turkish	varsam	[details]
Welsh	môr-wiber fach	[details]