African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Acanthopagrus berda (Forsskål, 1775)

AfReMaS taxon details

Acanthopagrus berda (Forsskål, 1775)

AphiaID

218588 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218588)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Acanthopagrus Peters, 1855

Original name

Sparus berda Forsskål, 1775

Synonymised names

Chrysophrys madagascariensis Valenciennes, 1830 · unaccepted

Sparus madagascariensis (Valenciennes, 1830) · unaccepted

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of ) Forskål P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Mölleri, Hafniae, 19 + xxxiv + 164 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2088059
page(s): 32, xi [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2021). FishBase. Acanthopagrus berda (Forsskål, 1775). 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=218588 on 2026-01-18

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. Acanthopagrus berda (Forsskål, 1775). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=218588 on 2026-01-18

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-02-24 18:26:33Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

1998-06-16 06:32:24Z

changed

Fondo, Esther

2008-01-15 17:27:08Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

[taxonomic tree]

[clear cache]

original description (of ) Forskål P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Mölleri, Hafniae, 19 + xxxiv + 164 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2088059
page(s): 32, xi [details]

original description (of Chrysophrys madagascariensis Valenciennes, 1830) Cuvier, G. ; Valenciennes, A. (1830). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome Sixième. Livre sixième. Partie I. Des Sparoïdes; Partie II. Des Ménides. Tome sixième. Livre sixième. Partie I. Des Sparoïdes; Partie II. Des Ménides. v. 6: i-xxiv + 6 pp. + 1-559, Pls. 141-169. [Valenciennes is author of pp. 1-425, 493-559; Cuvier 426-491. i-xviii + 1-470 in Strasbourg ed.]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4436643 [details]

context source (HKRMS) Hong Kong marine fish database. AFCD. , available online at https://www.hk-fish.net/en/fish/introduction/ [details]

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

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. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Barcode of Life (76 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Chrysophrys madagascariensis Valenciennes, 1830)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Sparus madagascariensis (Valenciennes, 1830))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Acanthopagrus berda)
To FishBase (from synonym Chrysophrys madagascariensis Valenciennes, 1830)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Sparus madagascariensis (Valenciennes, 1830))
To GenBank (191 nucleotides; 108 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Acanthopagrus berda FIN034347 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Acanthopagrus berda FIN034347B Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS

Unreviewed

To NMNH Extant Collection (Acanthopagrus berda FIN034347 Slide 120 mm)

Hosted externally

To NMNH Extant Collection (Acanthopagrus berda FIN034347B Slide 120 mm)

Hosted externally