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Plain Wormfish
Gunnellichthys irideus Smith, 1958
Also calledPeixe-lombriga-iridescente (por)
First described in: Smith, J. L. B. (1958). The gunnellichthid fishes with description of two new species from East Africa and of Gunnellichthys (Clarkichthys) bilineatus (Clark), 1936. <em>Ichthyological Bulletin, Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University.</em> 9: 123-129.
This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Gunnellichthys irideus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2392074.