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Iburi poacher

Occella iburia (Jordan & Starks, 1904)

Source-backed taxonomic record

Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.

Open encyclopedia reference

Occella iburia is a fish in the family Agonidae. It was described by David Starr Jordan and Edwin Chapin Starks in 1904, originally in the genus Occa.

It is a marine, temperate water-dwelling fish which is known from the coast of Japan, in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.

Wikipedia contributors, Occella iburia; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T03:33:20.568953+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.

Identity & source status

Scientific name
Occella iburia (Jordan & Starks, 1904)
Name authority
(Jordan & Starks, 1904)
Common name
Iburi poacher
Rank
species
Accepted status
accepted
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Teleostei
Order
Perciformes
Family
Agonidae
Genus
Occella
Extinction status
Not supplied by this source

Source habitat flags: Marine: yes · Freshwater: no · Terrestrial: no. These do not form a complete habitat description.

Classification family tree

Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.

  1. domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
  2. kingdomAnimalia
  3. phylumChordata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. infraphylumGnathostomata
  6. parvphylumOsteichthyes
  7. gigaclassActinopterygii
  8. superclassActinopteri
  9. classTeleostei
  10. orderPerciformes
  11. suborderCottoidei
  12. familyAgonidae Swainson, 1839
  13. subfamilyBrachyopsinae Jordan & Evermann, 1898
  14. genusOccella Jordan & Hubbs, 1925
  15. speciesOccella iburia (Jordan & Starks, 1904)

Close classified relatives

These entries share the source’s genus, Occella. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.

SpeciesClassificationSource status
Occella kasawae (Jordan & Hubbs, 1925)AgonidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Bering poacherOccella dodecaedron (Tilesius, 1813)AgonidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Occella kuronumai (Freeman, 1951)AgonidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied

Browse 35 records assigned to Agonidae.

Names & synonyms

Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.

Recorded nameSource status
Occa iburia Jordan & Starks, 1904 Jordan & Starks, 1904synonym

Source literature & publication evidence

References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.

  1. https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=279436 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references

Origins, evidence & remaining research

Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.

Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.

Dataset citation & attribution

This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11

Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.

Stable key: col:48BPP. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.