African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Carapus homei (Richardson, 1846)

AfReMaS name details

Carapus homei (Richardson, 1846)

AphiaID

217824 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217824)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Encheliophis homei (Richardson, 1846)

Rank

Species

Parent

Carapus Rafinesque, 1810

Original name

Oxybeles homei Richardson, 1846

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of ) Richardson, J. (1844-1848). Ichthyology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus & Terror, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, R. N., F. R. S. In: J. Richardson & J. E. Gray (eds.): The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus & Terror, under the command of Captain Sir J. C. Ross, R. N., F. R. S., during the years 1839 to 1843. E. W. Janson, London. v. 2 (2): i-viii + 1-139, Pls. 1-60. [1844: 1-16; 1845: 17-52; 1846: 53-74; 1848: i-viii + 75-139. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2021). FishBase. Carapus homei (Richardson, 1846). Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2021) African Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/afremas./aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217824 on 2026-07-15

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Carapus homei (Richardson, 1846). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217824 on 2026-07-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-07-05 08:48:11Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2008-02-28 13:41:07Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

[taxonomic tree] [clear cache]

original description (of ) Richardson, J. (1844-1848). Ichthyology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus & Terror, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, R. N., F. R. S. In: J. Richardson & J. E. Gray (eds.): The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus & Terror, under the command of Captain Sir J. C. Ross, R. N., F. R. S., during the years 1839 to 1843. E. W. Janson, London. v. 2 (2): i-viii + 1-139, Pls. 1-60. [1844: 1-16; 1845: 17-52; 1846: 53-74; 1848: i-viii + 75-139. [details]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

source of synonymy Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carapus homei)
To FishBase
To GenBank (18 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Carapus homei USNM 374346 photograph lateral view)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Carapus homei USNM 374346 photograph lateral view)
To ITIS

Unreviewed

To NMNH Extant Collection (Carapus homei USNM 374346 photograph lateral view)

Hosted externally

To NMNH Extant Collection (Carapus homei USNM 374346 photograph lateral view)

Hosted externally