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Curious wormfish
Gunnellichthys curiosus Dawson, 1968
Also calledNishikiomewarasubo (jpn) · Peixe-lombriga-neon (por) · Poisson-ver curieux (fra) · Selendang merah (msa) · hlaváčovec podivný (ces) · lebaleba lase (fij) · ニシキオオメワラスボ (jpn) · 眼帶䲁鰕虎 (zho)
First described in: Dawson, C. E. (1968). Two new wormfishes (Gobioidea: Microdesmidae) from the Indian Ocean. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 81: 53-67.
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 curiosus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2392077.