Fish-fuddle tree (Piscidia piscipula)

Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name: Piscidia piscipula (L.) Sarg.
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.: Piscidia piscipula
Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.: (L.) Sarg.
Common names: Fish-fuddle tree, Fishfuddle, Florida fishpoison tree, Jamaica-dogwood, Jamaican dogwood, Jamaican-dogwood, fish-poison-tree
Names in other languages (5)
Barbasco, Ja´abin, haabí, piscidie mámivá, piscídia mámivá
Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).: Plantae
Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.: Tracheophyta
Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).: Magnoliopsida
Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).: Fabales
Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).: Fabaceae
Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.: Piscidia
Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.: piscipula
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.: species
Reference species: Piscidia piscipula
Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.: accepted name

Photos and conservation status

IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.: Least concern (LC)
Source: IUCN Red List via GBIF, queried on 2026-10-09 09:10.

Photo of Piscidia piscipula (L.) Sarg. — Photo: Jill DeVito, PhD · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-09 09:10.

Interacciones documentadas

GloBI says it is documented somewhere in the world. Biolitica answers whether it could happen here.

A documented interaction means it was recorded somewhere in the world. It does not mean it occurs here.

Types shown: 7 of 7 has its flowers visited by × interacts with × is a host of × is pollinated by × is a mutualist of × is eaten by × is adjacent to ×

Blocks that do not sit under a navigation concept heading keep the source's own term: no navigation concept has been assigned to them yet.

Flower visit

has its flowers visited by 17 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. Visiting a flower is not pollinating it. «Pollinates» is a different term and a different block, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism	Reads as	Studies	Where it was documented
Phocides batabano okeechobee Hesperiidae	has its flowers visited by	2	not compared
2 sources · 3 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/6464313 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Record contexts (sample): no place published · May 7, 2017 · Human observation; no place published · May 7, 2017 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/117659437 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 9, 2022 · Human observation A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Hammoch Skipper Polygonus leo Hesperiidae	has its flowers visited by	2	not compared
2 sources · 2 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/113579290 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 29, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/154482002 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 3, 2023 · Human observation A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Monk Skipper Asbolis capucinus Hesperiidae	has its flowers visited by	1	not compared
1 source · 1 record https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/49851958 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 5, 2017 · Human observation A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Oil-collecting Bee Centris nitida	has its flowers visited by	1	not compared
1 source · 1 record https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/27428132 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · June 21, 2019 · Human observation A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.

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interacts with 14 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism	Reads as	Studies	Where it was documented	Actions
Hammoch Skipper Polygonus leo Hesperiidae	interacts with	6	not compared
6 sources · 9 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/193681878 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Record contexts (sample): no place published · Dec. 8, 2023 · Human observation; no place published · Dec. 8, 2023 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/207155082 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Record contexts (sample): no place published · April 14, 2024 · Human observation; no place published · April 14, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/335513949 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Jan. 20, 2026 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/26060377 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 30, 2019 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/51183304 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · June 27, 2020 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67354097 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Dec. 31, 2020 · Human observation A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Lasioglossum aureoviride Halictidae	interacts with	5	not compared
5 sources · 5 records https://scan-bugs.org:443/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=64900339 Published in globalbioticinteractions/scan Context: no place published · April 7, 1997 · Preserved specimen https://scan-bugs.org:443/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=64900341 Published in globalbioticinteractions/scan Context: no place published · April 7, 1997 · Preserved specimen https://scan-bugs.org:443/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=64900342 Published in globalbioticinteractions/scan Context: no place published · April 7, 1997 · Preserved specimen https://scan-bugs.org:443/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=64900343 Published in globalbioticinteractions/scan Context: no place published · April 7, 1997 · Preserved specimen https://scan-bugs.org:443/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=64900346 Published in globalbioticinteractions/scan Context: no place published · April 7, 1997 · Preserved specimen A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Hornets, Paper Wasps, Potter Wasps, And Allies Vespidae Vespidae	interacts with	3	not compared	Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at family level.
3 sources · 3 records 2b4a556a-1ed6-11e3-bfac-90b11c41863e Published in globalbioticinteractions/ku-semc Context: Merida, 15 km S, University of Yucatan · April 7, 1997 · Preserved specimen 2b4a58a8-1ed6-11e3-bfac-90b11c41863e Published in globalbioticinteractions/ku-semc Context: Merida, 15 km S, University of Yucatan · April 7, 1997 · Preserved specimen 2b4a5c16-1ed6-11e3-bfac-90b11c41863e Published in globalbioticinteractions/ku-semc Context: Merida, 15 km S, University of Yucatan · April 7, 1997 · Preserved specimen A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Oxybelus Crabronidae	interacts with	2	not compared	Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
2 sources · 2 records 2b4a85e2-1ed6-11e3-bfac-90b11c41863e Published in globalbioticinteractions/ku-semc Context: Merida, 15 km S, University of Yucatan · April 7, 1997 · Preserved specimen 2b4a9f17-1ed6-11e3-bfac-90b11c41863e Published in globalbioticinteractions/ku-semc Context: Merida, 15 km S, University of Yucatan · April 7, 1997 · Preserved specimen A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.

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is a host of 13 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. In the source ontology symbiosis covers mutualism, commensalism and parasitism alike, so this block holds attackers and allies side by side.

Organism	Reads as	Studies	Where it was documented
Ravenelia piscidiae Raveneliaceae	is a host of	46	not compared
46 sources · 46 records https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=14704763 Published in globalbioticinteractions/mycoportal Context: Miami · March 1, 1923 · Preserved specimen https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=14701409 Published in globalbioticinteractions/mycoportal Context: Miami · March 25, 1903 · Preserved specimen https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=14701149 Published in globalbioticinteractions/mycoportal Context: Miami · March 25, 1903 · Preserved specimen https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=14699362 Published in globalbioticinteractions/mycoportal Context: Miami · March 1, 1923 · Preserved specimen https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=14707779 Published in globalbioticinteractions/mycoportal Context: Miami · March 25, 1903 · Preserved specimen https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=14706681 Published in globalbioticinteractions/mycoportal Context: Miami · March 25, 1903 · Preserved specimen https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=1041465 Published in globalbioticinteractions/mycoportal Context: Miami · March 1, 1923 · Preserved specimen https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=1041467 Published in globalbioticinteractions/mycoportal Context: Miami · March 25, 1903 · Preserved specimen And 38 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Pseudocercospora ichthyomethiae Mycosphaerellaceae	is a host of	7	not compared
7 sources · 8 records Crous, P.W., and Braun, U.. 2003. %Mycosphaerella% and its anamorphs: 1. Names published in %Cercospora% and %Passalora%. Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, Utrecht :571 Published in globalbioticinteractions/usda-fungus-host Record contexts (sample): Cuba · no date published; United States · no date published https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=1341339 Published in globalbioticinteractions/mycoportal Context: Brickell Hammock, Miami Intercepted Miami Florida #39317 · April 5, 1966 · Preserved specimen Alfieri Jr., S.A., Langdon, K.R., Wehlburg, C., and Kimbrough, J.W.. 1984. Index of Plant Diseases in Florida (Revised). Florida Dept. Agric. and Consumer Serv., Div. Plant Ind. Bull. 11:1-389 Published in globalbioticinteractions/usda-fungus-host Context: United States · no date published Arnold, G.R.W.. 1986. Lista de Hongos Fitopatogenos de Cuba. Ministerio de Cultura Editorial Cientifico-Tecnica :207 Published in globalbioticinteractions/usda-fungus-host Context: Cuba · no date published Urtiaga, R.. 1986. Indice de enfermedades en plantas de Venezuela y Cuba. Impresos en Impresos Nuevo Siglo. S.R.L., Barquisimeto, Venezuela :202 Published in globalbioticinteractions/usda-fungus-host Context: Cuba · no date published Chupp, C.. 1954. Monograph of the fungus genus %Cercospora%. Published by the Author, Ithaca, New York :667 Published in globalbioticinteractions/usda-fungus-host Context: United States · no date published Dearness, J.. 1924. New and noteworthy fungi - III. Mycologia 16:143-176 Published in globalbioticinteractions/usda-fungus-host Context: United States · no date published A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Dothiorella stratosa	is a host of	3	not compared
3 sources · 3 records https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=1268193 Published in globalbioticinteractions/mycoportal Context: Singapore · Aug. 1, 1917 · Preserved specimen https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=1268194 Published in globalbioticinteractions/mycoportal Context: Singapore · Aug. 1, 1917 · Preserved specimen https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=1268195 Published in globalbioticinteractions/mycoportal Context: Singapore · Aug. 1, 1917 · Preserved specimen A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Hammoch Skipper Polygonus leo Hesperiidae	is a host of	3	not compared
3 sources · 3 records HOSTS DB Published in globalbioticinteractions/ferrer-paris Context: no place published · no date published https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67354097 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Dec. 31, 2020 · Human observation Gaden S. Robinson; Phillip R. Ackery; Ian Kitching; George W Beccaloni; Luis M. Hernández (2023). HOSTS (from HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants) [Data set resource]. Natural History Museum. https://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/hosts/resource/877f387a-36a3-486c-… Published in globalbioticinteractions/HOSTS Context: USA · no date published A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.

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Pollination

is pollinated by 5 organisms

This term declares that the organism benefits this species. «Visits the flowers of» is a different term and a different block: a visitor is not a pollinator, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism	Reads as	Studies	Where it was documented
Flathead Chub Platygobio gracilis Cyprinidae	is pollinated by	1	not compared
1 source · 2 records Percival, M. (1974). Floral Ecology of Coastal Scrub in Southeast Jamaica. Biotropica, 6, 104-129. Published in globalbioticinteractions/web-of-life Record contexts (sample): no place published · no date published; no place published · no date published A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Red-billed Streamertail Trochilus polytmus Trochilidae	is pollinated by	1	not compared
1 source · 1 record Percival, M. (1974). Floral Ecology of Coastal Scrub in Southeast Jamaica. Biotropica, 6, 104-129. Published in globalbioticinteractions/web-of-life Context: no place published · no date published A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Cassius Blue Leptotes cassius Lycaenidae	is pollinated by	1	not compared
1 source · 1 record Percival, M. (1974). Floral Ecology of Coastal Scrub in Southeast Jamaica. Biotropica, 6, 104-129. Published in globalbioticinteractions/web-of-life Context: no place published · no date published A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
European Honey Bee Apis mellifera Apidae	is pollinated by	1	not compared
1 source · 1 record Percival, M. (1974). Floral Ecology of Coastal Scrub in Southeast Jamaica. Biotropica, 6, 104-129. Published in globalbioticinteractions/web-of-life Context: no place published · no date published A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.

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is a mutualist of 3 organisms

This term declares that the organism benefits this species.

Organism	Reads as	Studies	Where it was documented
Flathead Chub Platygobio gracilis Cyprinidae	is a mutualist of	1	not compared
1 source · 2 records @article{10.2307/2989824, ISSN = {00063606, 17447429}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/2989824}, author = {Mary Percival}, journal = {Biotropica}, number = {2}, pages = {104--129}, publisher = {[Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Wiley]}, title = {Floral Ecolo… Published in globalbioticinteractions/mangal Record contexts (sample): no place published · Jan. 1, 1974 · null; no place published · Jan. 1, 1974 · null A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
European Honey Bee Apis mellifera Apidae	is a mutualist of	1	not compared
1 source · 1 record @article{10.2307/2989824, ISSN = {00063606, 17447429}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/2989824}, author = {Mary Percival}, journal = {Biotropica}, number = {2}, pages = {104--129}, publisher = {[Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Wiley]}, title = {Floral Ecolo… Published in globalbioticinteractions/mangal Context: no place published · Jan. 1, 1974 · null A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Cassius Blue Leptotes cassius Lycaenidae	is a mutualist of	1	not compared
1 source · 2 records @article{10.2307/2989824, ISSN = {00063606, 17447429}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/2989824}, author = {Mary Percival}, journal = {Biotropica}, number = {2}, pages = {104--129}, publisher = {[Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Wiley]}, title = {Floral Ecolo… Published in globalbioticinteractions/mangal Record contexts (sample): no place published · Jan. 1, 1974 · null; no place published · Jan. 1, 1974 · null A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.

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is eaten by 2 organisms

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism	Reads as	Studies	Where it was documented
Hammoch Skipper Polygonus leo Hesperiidae	is eaten by	2	not compared
2 sources · 3 records Edward Baker; Ian Kitching; George W Beccaloni; Amoret Whitaker; Steen Dupont; Vincent Smith; John S Noyes (2017). NHM Interactions Bank. https://doi.org/10.5519/0060767. Accessed at <https://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/82e807f0-6273-4f19-be0a-7f7558442a25/resource/f84ad9f1-bd0c-4811… Published in globalbioticinteractions/natural-history-museum-london-interactions-bank Record contexts (sample): no place published · no date published; no place published · no date published https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67354097 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Dec. 31, 2020 · Human observation A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Green-breasted Mango Anthracothorax prevostii Trochilidae	is eaten by	1	not compared
1 source · 1 record https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/41406724 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 1, 2020 · Human observation A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.

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is adjacent to 1 organism

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism	Reads as	Studies	Where it was documented	Actions
Ravenelia piscidiae Raveneliaceae	is adjacent to	3	not compared
3 sources · 3 records https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=2699190 Published in globalbioticinteractions/mycoportal Context: Miami · Dec. 18, 1907 · Preserved specimen https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=2699191 Published in globalbioticinteractions/mycoportal Context: Miami · March 25, 1903 · Preserved specimen https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=4282259 Published in globalbioticinteractions/mycoportal Context: no place published · March 1, 1923 · Exsiccati A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.

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Interaction data from Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI), GloBI 0.11. Each row keeps the citation its own study published.

Interactions are published at species level: they are not resolved by variety or race.

Each block is headed by the source's own term, read from this species' end — not by a category of ours. Two similar terms are not merged.

«Documented here» means the interaction was observed in this territory. It is not evidence that the species is here, and it does not enter the niche model.

Acompañantes documentados

This agronomic reading comes from a source reserved for internal use, so it is not shown here.

Documented uses and recommendations

Uses and recommendations that a source documents for this species beside a crop, each in its own context. They are the source's statements, not traits of the species and not Biolítica's recommendations, and none of them is a relation between two species.

Among the sources you can read, none documents a use or recommendation of this species beside a crop.