WoRMS taxon details
Eleotris fusca (Forster, 1801)
219356 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:219356)
accepted
Species
Culius fuscus (Forster, 1801) · unaccepted
Culius niger (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) · unaccepted
Eleotris cavifrons Blyth, 1860 · unaccepted
Eleotris fornasini Bianconi, 1855 · unaccepted (synonym)
Eleotris fornasinii Bianconi, 1855 · unaccepted
Eleotris fuscus (Forster, 1801) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Eleotris klunzingerii Pfeffer, 1893 · unaccepted
Eleotris niger Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 · unaccepted
Eleotris nigra Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 · unaccepted
Poecilia fusca Forster, 1801 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Poecilia fusca Forster, 1801) Bloch, M.E.; Schneider, J.G. (1801). M.E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. <em>Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. Berolini. Sumtibus Auctoris Impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano Commissum.</em> Pp i-lx + 1-584, Pls. 1-110., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/5750#/summary
page(s): 453 [details]
page(s): 453 [details]
Description Found in estauries, lagoons and freshwater (Ref. 6028). Carnivorous.
Description Found in estauries, lagoons and freshwater (Ref. 6028). Carnivorous. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Eleotris fusca (Forster, 1801). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=219356 on 2025-06-06
Date
action
by
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
Nomenclature
original description
(of Poecilia fusca Forster, 1801) Bloch, M.E.; Schneider, J.G. (1801). M.E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. <em>Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. Berolini. Sumtibus Auctoris Impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano Commissum.</em> Pp i-lx + 1-584, Pls. 1-110., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/5750#/summary
page(s): 453 [details]
original description (of Eleotris cavifrons Blyth, 1860) Blyth, E. (1860). Report on some fishes received chiefly from the Sitang River and its tributary streams, Tenasserim Provinces. <em>Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal .</em> v. 29 (no. 2): 138-174.
page(s): 145 [details]
original description (of Eleotris niger Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) Quoy, J. R. C.; Gaimard, J. P. (1824-1825). Description des Poissons. Chapter IX. <em>In: Freycinet, L. de, Voyage autour du Monde...exécuté sur les corvettes de L. M.</em> 192-401 [1-328 in 1824; 329-616 in 1825], Atlas pls. 43-65., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40871183#page/204/mode/1up [details]
original description (of Eleotris fornasini Bianconi, 1855) Bianconi, G. G. (1850-62). Specimina zoologica mosambicana quibus vel novae vel minus notae animalium species illustrantur. Bononiae. 1850-1870. [Fascicles 1 (pp. 1-28, Apr. 1850), x (p. 215-229, pls. 1-3, 11 May 1855), xii (pp. 243-258, pls. 4-7, 28 May), xiii (pp. 259-270, pls. 8-9, 6 Apr. 1859), xiv (pp. 272-282, pl. 10, 31 Mar. 1859), xv (pp. 283-393 [= 293], pl. 11, 6 Mar. 1862) involve fishes.]. 1-363, 48 pls. [According to Dean 1916 [ref. 13327], abstracts with diagnoses were published earlier. Publication dates as stated by Bianconi.]. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
page(s): 453 [details]
original description (of Eleotris cavifrons Blyth, 1860) Blyth, E. (1860). Report on some fishes received chiefly from the Sitang River and its tributary streams, Tenasserim Provinces. <em>Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal .</em> v. 29 (no. 2): 138-174.
page(s): 145 [details]
original description (of Eleotris niger Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) Quoy, J. R. C.; Gaimard, J. P. (1824-1825). Description des Poissons. Chapter IX. <em>In: Freycinet, L. de, Voyage autour du Monde...exécuté sur les corvettes de L. M.</em> 192-401 [1-328 in 1824; 329-616 in 1825], Atlas pls. 43-65., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40871183#page/204/mode/1up [details]
original description (of Eleotris fornasini Bianconi, 1855) Bianconi, G. G. (1850-62). Specimina zoologica mosambicana quibus vel novae vel minus notae animalium species illustrantur. Bononiae. 1850-1870. [Fascicles 1 (pp. 1-28, Apr. 1850), x (p. 215-229, pls. 1-3, 11 May 1855), xii (pp. 243-258, pls. 4-7, 28 May), xiii (pp. 259-270, pls. 8-9, 6 Apr. 1859), xiv (pp. 272-282, pl. 10, 31 Mar. 1859), xv (pp. 283-393 [= 293], pl. 11, 6 Mar. 1862) involve fishes.]. 1-363, 48 pls. [According to Dean 1916 [ref. 13327], abstracts with diagnoses were published earlier. Publication dates as stated by Bianconi.]. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [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. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
context source (RAS)
Australian Antarctic Data Centre. , available online at https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/ [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Description Found in estauries, lagoons and freshwater (Ref. 6028). Carnivorous. [details]Remark In Bloch & Schneider (Ref. 7442). [details]
To Barcode of Life (15 barcodes) (from synonym Eleotris klunzingerii Pfeffer, 1893)
To Barcode of Life (344 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Eleotris klunzingerii Pfeffer, 1893)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (106 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) (from synonym Eleotris niger Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) (from synonym Poecilia fusca Forster, 1801)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications) (from synonym Culius niger (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) (from synonym Culius fuscus (Forster, 1801))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Eleotris fornasinii Bianconi, 1855)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (33 publications) (from synonym Eleotris nigra Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Eleotris fuscus (Forster, 1801))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Eleotris cavifrons Blyth, 1860)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Eleotris fusca)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Eleotris klunzingerii) (from synonym Eleotris klunzingerii Pfeffer, 1893)
To FishBase (from synonym Eleotris niger Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
To FishBase (from synonym Culius fuscus (Forster, 1801))
To FishBase (from synonym Eleotris nigra Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
To FishBase (from synonym Eleotris fornasini Bianconi, 1855)
To FishBase (from synonym Culius niger (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824))
To FishBase (from synonym Eleotris fuscus (Forster, 1801))
To FishBase (from synonym Eleotris fornasinii Bianconi, 1855)
To FishBase (from synonym Eleotris klunzingerii Pfeffer, 1893)
To FishBase (from synonym Eleotris cavifrons Blyth, 1860)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Poecilia fusca Forster, 1801)
To FishBase images (Eleotris fusca, Sri Lanka, by Ramani Shirantha)
To GenBank (105 nucleotides; 172 proteins) (from synonym Eleotris klunzingerii Pfeffer, 1893)
To GenBank (648 nucleotides; 916 proteins) (from synonym Eleotris fornasini Bianconi, 1855)
To GenBank (648 nucleotides; 916 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Eleotris fusca RAD108800-001)
To ITIS
To Barcode of Life (344 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Eleotris klunzingerii Pfeffer, 1893)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (106 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) (from synonym Eleotris niger Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) (from synonym Poecilia fusca Forster, 1801)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications) (from synonym Culius niger (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) (from synonym Culius fuscus (Forster, 1801))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Eleotris fornasinii Bianconi, 1855)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (33 publications) (from synonym Eleotris nigra Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Eleotris fuscus (Forster, 1801))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Eleotris cavifrons Blyth, 1860)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Eleotris fusca)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Eleotris klunzingerii) (from synonym Eleotris klunzingerii Pfeffer, 1893)
To FishBase (from synonym Eleotris niger Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
To FishBase (from synonym Culius fuscus (Forster, 1801))
To FishBase (from synonym Eleotris nigra Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
To FishBase (from synonym Eleotris fornasini Bianconi, 1855)
To FishBase (from synonym Culius niger (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824))
To FishBase (from synonym Eleotris fuscus (Forster, 1801))
To FishBase (from synonym Eleotris fornasinii Bianconi, 1855)
To FishBase (from synonym Eleotris klunzingerii Pfeffer, 1893)
To FishBase (from synonym Eleotris cavifrons Blyth, 1860)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Poecilia fusca Forster, 1801)
To FishBase images (Eleotris fusca, Sri Lanka, by Ramani Shirantha)
To GenBank (105 nucleotides; 172 proteins) (from synonym Eleotris klunzingerii Pfeffer, 1893)
To GenBank (648 nucleotides; 916 proteins) (from synonym Eleotris fornasini Bianconi, 1855)
To GenBank (648 nucleotides; 916 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Eleotris fusca RAD108800-001)
To ITIS
