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Gerres poeti    !
Ambiguous synonym for Gerres longirostris (Lacepède, 1801)

  Original name  
  Check ECoF  
  Current accepted name  
No
  Status  
Ambiguous synonym
  Status details  
other, original combination, misspelling
  Status ref.  
  Comment  
Appeared in Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830 and treated as a redescription of G. poieti Cuvier, 1829, from a specimen from India, included now in Gerres phaiya Iwatsuki & Heemstra, 2001.
  Etymology of generic noun  
Latin, gerres = a kind of anchovies; cited by Plinius
  Link to references  
References using the name as accepted
  Link to other databases  
! - Marks misspellings of the species names that must not be used.