WoRMS taxon details
Othos dentex (Cuvier, 1828)
281948 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:281948)
accepted
Species
Othos cephalotes Castelnau, 1875 · unaccepted
Plectropoma dentex Cuvier, 1828 · unaccepted
Plectropoma richardsonii Günther, 1862 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Plectropoma dentex Cuvier, 1828) Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1828). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome second. Livre Troisième. Des poissons de la famille des perches, ou des percoïdes. 2: i-xxi + 2 pp + 1-490, Pls. 9-40.
page(s): 394 [details]
page(s): 394 [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Othos dentex (Cuvier, 1828). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=281948 on 2025-07-02
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Othos cephalotes Castelnau, 1875) Castelnau, F. L. (1875). Researches on the fishes of Australia.Official Record, containing Introduction, Catalogues, Official Awards of the Commissioners, Report and Recommendations of the Experts, and Essays and Statistics on the Social and Economic Resources of the Colony of Victoria. <em>Intercolonial Exhibition Essays.</em> Part VII (II): 1-52.
page(s): 44 [details]
original description (of Plectropoma dentex Cuvier, 1828) Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1828). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome second. Livre Troisième. Des poissons de la famille des perches, ou des percoïdes. 2: i-xxi + 2 pp + 1-490, Pls. 9-40.
page(s): 394 [details]
page(s): 44 [details]
original description (of Plectropoma dentex Cuvier, 1828) Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1828). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome second. Livre Troisième. Des poissons de la famille des perches, ou des percoïdes. 2: i-xxi + 2 pp + 1-490, Pls. 9-40.
page(s): 394 [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] 
Other
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) (from synonym Plectropoma dentex Cuvier, 1828)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Othos cephalotes Castelnau, 1875)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Plectropoma richardsonii Günther, 1862)
To FishBase (from synonym Othos cephalotes Castelnau, 1875)
To FishBase (from synonym Plectropoma dentex Cuvier, 1828)
To FishBase (from synonym Plectropoma richardsonii Günther, 1862)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Othos dentex, by CSIRO)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) (from synonym Plectropoma dentex Cuvier, 1828)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Othos cephalotes Castelnau, 1875)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Plectropoma richardsonii Günther, 1862)
To FishBase (from synonym Othos cephalotes Castelnau, 1875)
To FishBase (from synonym Plectropoma dentex Cuvier, 1828)
To FishBase (from synonym Plectropoma richardsonii Günther, 1862)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Othos dentex, by CSIRO)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
