African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Tetrodon lunaris Bloch & Schneider, 1801

AfReMaS name details

Tetrodon lunaris Bloch & Schneider, 1801

AphiaID

321872 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:321872)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Lagocephalus lunaris (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)

Rank

Species

Parent

Tetrodon Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Tetraodon Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Tetrodon lunaris Bloch & Schneider, 1801

Environment

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

Original description

Bloch, M.E.; Schneider, J.G. (1801). M.E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. <em>Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. Berolini. Sumtibus Auctoris Impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano Commissum.</em> Pp i-lx + 1-584, Pls. 1-110., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/5750#/summary, https://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/getref.asp?id=471
page(s): 505 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2021). FishBase. Tetrodon lunaris Bloch & Schneider, 1801. 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: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=321872 on 2026-09-15

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. Tetrodon lunaris Bloch & Schneider, 1801. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=321872 on 2026-09-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-02-28 13:41:07Z

created

Bailly, Nicolas

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original description Bloch, M.E.; Schneider, J.G. (1801). M.E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. <em>Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. Berolini. Sumtibus Auctoris Impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano Commissum.</em> Pp i-lx + 1-584, Pls. 1-110., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/5750#/summary, https://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/getref.asp?id=471
page(s): 505 [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]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (50 publications)
To FishBase
To GenBank (73 nucleotides; 82 proteins)