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Psilotris boehlkei Greenfield, 1993

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.

Identity & source status

Scientific name
Psilotris boehlkei Greenfield, 1993
Name authority
Greenfield, 1993
Rank
species
Accepted status
accepted
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Teleostei
Order
Gobiiformes
Family
Gobiidae
Genus
Psilotris
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. orderGobiiformes
  11. familyGobiidae Cuvier, 1816
  12. subfamilyGobiinae Cuvier, 1816
  13. genusPsilotris Ginsburg, 1953
  14. speciesPsilotris boehlkei Greenfield, 1993

Close classified relatives

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

SpeciesClassificationSource status
Psilotris celsa Böhlke, 1963GobiidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Psilotris kaufmani Greenfield, Findley & Johnson, 1993GobiidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Psilotris laurae Van Tassell, Tornabene & Baldwin in Tornabene, Van Tassell, Gilmore, Robertson, Young & Baldwin, 2016GobiidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Psilotris laetarii Van Tassell & Young in Tornabene, Van Tassell, Gilmore, Robertson, Young & Baldwin, 2016GobiidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Psilotris vantasselli Tornabene & Baldwin, 2019GobiidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
scaleless gobyPsilotris alepis Ginsburg, 1953GobiidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied

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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. Greenfield, D. W. (1993). New goby, Psilotris boehlkei (Pisces: Gobiidae), from the western Atlantic, with a key to the species. Copeia, 1993 (3): 771–775. https://doi.org/10.2307/1447240 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:4PJWF. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.