Kingdom: Animalia > Phylum: Chordata > Class: Actinopterygii > Order: Perciformes > Family: Trachinidae > Genus: Echiichthys > Species: Echiichthys vipera

Lesser weever - Echiichthys vipera (Cuvier, 1829)

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Threat status Europe Least Concern (IUCN)

The EUNIS species component has very limited information about this species.

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Distribution

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Threat and conservation status

IUCN Red List status of threatened species

The IUCN Red List threat status assesses the risk of extinction.

World

Not evaluated

Europe

Least Concern

EU

Not evaluated

IUCN Red List Category
Not Evaluated
Near Threatened
Regionally Extinct
Not Applicable
Vulnerable
Extinct in the Wild
Data Deficient
Endangered
Extinct
Least Concern
Critically Endangered

EU conservation status

The EU conservation status is assessed for species mentioned in the EU Habitats Directive annexes. The EU Habitats Directive does not cover this species.

Natura 2000 sites

Not available

Legal status

Not listed in legal texts

Common names and synonyms

Common Name Language Reference
Aranha-comun Portuguese Fishbase
Goineadóir Irish (recte Irish Gaelic) Fishbase
Kleine pieterman Dutch Fishbase
Lesser weever English Fishbase
Lesser weever fish English Fishbase
Lille Fjæsing Danish Fishbase
Ostrosz wipera Polish Fishbase
Peixe-aranha-comun Portuguese Fishbase
Peixe-aranha-menor Portuguese Fishbase
Petite vive French Fishbase
Ranxh helmues Albanian Fishbase
Ranxhe helmuese Albanian Fishbase
Salvariego Spanish Fishbase
Sawt Maltese Fishbase
Sawt nanu Maltese Fishbase
Stracna Maltese Fishbase
Tracna lixxa Maltese Fishbase
Vipera-de-mare Romanian Fishbase
Viperqueise German Fishbase
Weever English Fishbase
Synonym Author
Trachinus vipera Cuvier, 1829

Other resources

CoL (accepted name) Catalogue of Life
Fauna Europaea search Fauna Europaea
FishBase FishBase
GBIF Global Biodiversity Information Facility
ITIS (Valid name) Interagency Taxonomic Information System
NCBI search National Center for Biotechnology Information
PESI (Accepted) Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure
Wikipedia Wikipedia
WoRMS World Register of Marine Species

External data

No external data sets available for this species
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