WoRMS taxon details
Platycephalus indicus (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 127234
AphiaID: 127234
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Scorpaeniformes (Order) > Platycephalidae (Family) > Platycephalus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Platycephalus Bloch, 1795 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Callionymus indicus Linnaeus, 1758 Cottus insidiator Forsskål, 1775 Cottus madagascariensis Lacepède, 1801 Platycephalus insidiator (Forsskål, 1775) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details] additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Environment | marine, brackish, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Djibouti [details] Eritrea [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Acanthochondria bulbosus Heegaard, 1943 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Acanthochondria tchangi Yü, 1935 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Taeniacanthus platycephali (Yamaguti, 1939) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Parataeniacanthus platycephali Yamaguti, 1939 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||
| Links | Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE) To Barcode of Life (22 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (42 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (56 nucleotides; 55 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Found on sandy and muddy bottoms of coastal waters (Ref. 5213). Frequently in estuaries, juveniles have been taken in freshwater. Taken by handlining and seining in shallow waters and by trawling at depths to 30 m, usually less (Ref. 9790). Commercially cultured in Japan. Marketed fresh (Ref. 5284). [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127234 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Platycephalus indicus (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=127234 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||
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