WoRMS taxon details
Chatrabus melanurus (Barnard, 1927)
221351 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:221351)
accepted
Species
Batrachoides damaranus Barnard, 1927 · unaccepted
Batrachoides melanurus Barnard, 1927 · unaccepted
Chatrabus damaranus (Barnard, 1927) · unaccepted
Tharbacus vanecki Smith, 1952 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Batrachoides melanurus Barnard, 1927) Barnard, K. H. (1927). Diagnoses of new genera and species of South African marine fishes. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 9).</em> 20 (115) (8): 66-79. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Chatrabus melanurus (Barnard, 1927). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=221351 on 2025-06-18
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Batrachoides damaranus Barnard, 1927) Barnard, K. H. (1927). Diagnoses of new genera and species of South African marine fishes. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 9).</em> 20 (115) (8): 66-79. [details]
original description (of Batrachoides melanurus Barnard, 1927) Barnard, K. H. (1927). Diagnoses of new genera and species of South African marine fishes. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 9).</em> 20 (115) (8): 66-79. [details]
original description (of Tharbacus vanecki Smith, 1952) Smith, J. L. B. (1952). The fishes of the family Batrachoididae from South and East Africa. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 12).</em> 5 (52) (art. 38): 313-339. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
original description (of Batrachoides melanurus Barnard, 1927) Barnard, K. H. (1927). Diagnoses of new genera and species of South African marine fishes. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 9).</em> 20 (115) (8): 66-79. [details]
original description (of Tharbacus vanecki Smith, 1952) Smith, J. L. B. (1952). The fishes of the family Batrachoididae from South and East Africa. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 12).</em> 5 (52) (art. 38): 313-339. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Batrachoides damaranus Barnard, 1927)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Batrachoides melanurus Barnard, 1927)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Chatrabus damaranus (Barnard, 1927))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Chatrabus melanurus)
To FishBase (from synonym Batrachoides melanurus Barnard, 1927)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Batrachoides damaranus Barnard, 1927)
To FishBase (from synonym Chatrabus damaranus (Barnard, 1927))
To FishBase (from synonym Tharbacus vanecki Smith, 1952)
To FishBase images (Chatrabus melanurus, South Africa, by SFSA)
To FishSounds
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 6 proteins) (from synonym Batrachoides melanurus Barnard, 1927)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) (from synonym Chatrabus damaranus (Barnard, 1927))
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Batrachoides melanurus Barnard, 1927)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Chatrabus damaranus (Barnard, 1927))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Chatrabus melanurus)
To FishBase (from synonym Batrachoides melanurus Barnard, 1927)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Batrachoides damaranus Barnard, 1927)
To FishBase (from synonym Chatrabus damaranus (Barnard, 1927))
To FishBase (from synonym Tharbacus vanecki Smith, 1952)
To FishBase images (Chatrabus melanurus, South Africa, by SFSA)
To FishSounds
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 6 proteins) (from synonym Batrachoides melanurus Barnard, 1927)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) (from synonym Chatrabus damaranus (Barnard, 1927))
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
