WoRMS taxon details

Sparodon durbanensis (Castelnau, 1861)

218627  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218627)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Sargus durbanensis Castelnau, 1861) Castelnau, F. L. (1861). Mémoire sur les poissons de l'Afrique australe. <em>Paris.</em> i-vii + 1-78., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1722840#page/9/mode/1up [details]   
Note Type species of the genus.  
From other sources
Type species Type species of the genus. [details]
Description One of the best known angling fishes of South Africa. Inhabits shallow coastal waters, mainly off rocky shores down to 80 m...  
Description One of the best known angling fishes of South Africa. Inhabits shallow coastal waters, mainly off rocky shores down to 80 m depth. Young occur in tidal pools along the southern and southeastern coasts of South Africa, from October to January. Feeds mainly on molluscs (Ref. 5213). An important foodfish.  [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Sparodon durbanensis (Castelnau, 1861). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=218627 on 2024-03-28
Date
action
by
1997-02-24 18:26:33Z
created
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
changed

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original description  (of Sargus durbanensis Castelnau, 1861) Castelnau, F. L. (1861). Mémoire sur les poissons de l'Afrique australe. <em>Paris.</em> i-vii + 1-78., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1722840#page/9/mode/1up [details]   

basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2023). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2023)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]   

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]  OpenAccess publication 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Description One of the best known angling fishes of South Africa. Inhabits shallow coastal waters, mainly off rocky shores down to 80 m depth. Young occur in tidal pools along the southern and southeastern coasts of South Africa, from October to January. Feeds mainly on molluscs (Ref. 5213). An important foodfish.  [details]

Type species Type species of the genus. [details]
LanguageName 
English musselcracker seabream  [details]