WoRMS taxon details
Pomadasys commersonnii (Lacepède, 1801)
218563 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218563)
accepted
Species
Labrus commersonnii Lacepède, 1801 · unaccepted
Pomadasys commersonni (Lacepède, 1801) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Pomadasys operculare (Playfair, 1867) · unaccepted
Pomadasys opercularis (Playfair, 1867) · unaccepted
Pristipoma operculare Playfair, 1867 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Labrus commersonnii Lacepède, 1801) Lacepède, B.G.E. (1801). Histoire naturelle des poissons. 3: i-lxvi + 1-558, Pls. 1-34.
page(s): 431, 477, Pl. 23 (fig. 1) [details]
page(s): 431, 477, Pl. 23 (fig. 1) [details]
Description Found in coastal waters, estuaries, and tidal fissures. May be captured bottom longlines. Feeds on crusctaceans and fish....
Description Found in coastal waters, estuaries, and tidal fissures. May be captured bottom longlines. Feeds on crusctaceans and fish. (Ref. 5213). [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Pomadasys commersonnii (Lacepède, 1801). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=218563 on 2025-10-09
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Labrus commersonnii Lacepède, 1801) Lacepède, B.G.E. (1801). Histoire naturelle des poissons. 3: i-lxvi + 1-558, Pls. 1-34.
page(s): 431, 477, Pl. 23 (fig. 1) [details]
original description (of Pristipoma operculare Playfair, 1867) Playfair, R. L.; Günther, A. (1867). The fishes of Zanzibar, with a list of the fishes of the whole east coast of Africa. <em>London.</em> i-xiv + 1-153, Pls. 1-21. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
page(s): 431, 477, Pl. 23 (fig. 1) [details]
original description (of Pristipoma operculare Playfair, 1867) Playfair, R. L.; Günther, A. (1867). The fishes of Zanzibar, with a list of the fishes of the whole east coast of Africa. <em>London.</em> i-xiv + 1-153, Pls. 1-21. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [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] 
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Description Found in coastal waters, estuaries, and tidal fissures. May be captured bottom longlines. Feeds on crusctaceans and fish. (Ref. 5213). [details]Spelling spelled Pomadasys commersonii in Grove et al., 1986 <252>. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | spotted gruntersmallspotted gruntersmallspotted grunt [from synonym] | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (22 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Labrus commersonnii Lacepède, 1801)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Pomadasys commersonni (Lacepède, 1801))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Pristipoma operculare Playfair, 1867)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Pomadasys operculare (Playfair, 1867))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Pomadasys opercularis (Playfair, 1867))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pomadasys commersonnii)
To FishBase (from synonym Pomadasys opercularis (Playfair, 1867))
To FishBase (from synonym Pomadasys operculare (Playfair, 1867))
To FishBase (from synonym Labrus commersonnii Lacepède, 1801)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Pristipoma operculare Playfair, 1867)
To FishBase (from synonym Pomadasys commersonni (Lacepède, 1801))
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Labrus commersonnii Lacepède, 1801)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Pristipoma operculare Playfair in Playfair & Günther, 1867; SYNTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3100440) (from synonym Pristipoma operculare Playfair, 1867)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Pomadasys commersonnii FIN029039 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Pomadasys commersonnii FIN029039B Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Labrus commersonnii Lacepède, 1801)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Pomadasys commersonni (Lacepède, 1801))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Pristipoma operculare Playfair, 1867)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Pomadasys operculare (Playfair, 1867))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Pomadasys opercularis (Playfair, 1867))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pomadasys commersonnii)
To FishBase (from synonym Pomadasys opercularis (Playfair, 1867))
To FishBase (from synonym Pomadasys operculare (Playfair, 1867))
To FishBase (from synonym Labrus commersonnii Lacepède, 1801)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Pristipoma operculare Playfair, 1867)
To FishBase (from synonym Pomadasys commersonni (Lacepède, 1801))
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Labrus commersonnii Lacepède, 1801)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Pristipoma operculare Playfair in Playfair & Günther, 1867; SYNTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3100440) (from synonym Pristipoma operculare Playfair, 1867)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Pomadasys commersonnii FIN029039 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Pomadasys commersonnii FIN029039B Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Hosted externally, from synonym
Unreviewed
Hosted externally
Hosted externally
