WoRMS taxon details
Diplodus hottentotus (Smith, 1844)
713378 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:713378)
accepted
Species
Diplodus cervinus hottentotus (Smith, 1844) · unaccepted
Sargus hottentotus Smith, 1844 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Sargus hottentotus Smith, 1844) Smith, A. (1838-1847). Pisces. <em>In: Illustrations of the zoology of South Africa; consisting chiefly of figures and descriptions of the objects of natural history collected during an expedition into the interior of South Africa in 1834-36.</em> v. 4: 77 unnumb. pp, accompanying Pls. 1-31. [Published in parts; see Barnard 1950 for dates of individual parts; fishes from 1838-1847.]. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Diplodus hottentotus (Smith, 1844). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=713378 on 2026-08-20
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Sargus hottentotus Smith, 1844) Smith, A. (1838-1847). Pisces. <em>In: Illustrations of the zoology of South Africa; consisting chiefly of figures and descriptions of the objects of natural history collected during an expedition into the interior of South Africa in 1834-36.</em> v. 4: 77 unnumb. pp, accompanying Pls. 1-31. [Published in parts; see Barnard 1950 for dates of individual parts; fishes from 1838-1847.]. [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]
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]
Taxonomy
status source
Fricke, R.; Golani, D.; Appelbaum-Golani, B. (2016). <em>Diplodus levantinus</em> (Teleostei: Sparidae), a new species of sea bream from the southeastern Mediterranean Sea of Israel, with a checklist and a key to the species of the <em>Diplodus sargus</em> species group. <em>Scientia Marina.</em> 80(3): 305-320., available online at https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.04414.22b [details] Available for editors 
[request]
[request]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
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | zebra [from synonym] | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) (from synonym Sargus hottentotus Smith, 1844)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Diplodus hottentotus)
To FishBase (from synonym Diplodus cervinus hottentotus (Smith, 1844))
To FishBase (from synonym Sargus hottentotus Smith, 1844)
To FishBase
To GenBank (102 nucleotides; 101 proteins)
To GenBank (102 nucleotides; 101 proteins) (from synonym Diplodus cervinus hottentotus (Smith, 1844))
To GenBank (102 nucleotides; 101 proteins) (from synonym Sargus hottentotus Smith, 1844)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) (from synonym Sargus hottentotus Smith, 1844)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Diplodus hottentotus)
To FishBase (from synonym Diplodus cervinus hottentotus (Smith, 1844))
To FishBase (from synonym Sargus hottentotus Smith, 1844)
To FishBase
To GenBank (102 nucleotides; 101 proteins)
To GenBank (102 nucleotides; 101 proteins) (from synonym Diplodus cervinus hottentotus (Smith, 1844))
To GenBank (102 nucleotides; 101 proteins) (from synonym Sargus hottentotus Smith, 1844)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
