World Register of Deep-Sea species - Pontinus kuhlii (Bowdich, 1825)

Deep-Sea taxon details

Pontinus kuhlii (Bowdich, 1825)

AphiaID

127240 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127240)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Pontinus Poey, 1860

Original name

Scorpaena kuhlii Bowdich, 1825

Environment

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

Original description

(of ) Bowdich, S. L. (1825). Fishes of Madeira. In: T. E. Bowdich. Excursions in Madeira and Porto Santo during the autumn of 1823, while on his third voyage to Africa. London. i-xii + 1-278, 11 pls. + 10 pls. Pp. 121-125 and 233-238., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.14573
page(s): 123 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Pontinus kuhlii (Bowdich, 1825). Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=127240 on 2026-02-18

Thematic species database citation

Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Pontinus kuhlii (Bowdich, 1825). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=127240 on 2026-02-18

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2008-01-15 17:27:08Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

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original description (of ) Bowdich, S. L. (1825). Fishes of Madeira. In: T. E. Bowdich. Excursions in Madeira and Porto Santo during the autumn of 1823, while on his third voyage to Africa. London. i-xii + 1-278, 11 pls. + 10 pls. Pp. 121-125 and 233-238., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.14573
page(s): 123 [details]

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

basis of record van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., 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. 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

Unreviewed

Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]

Spelling Pontinus khulii [details]

Definitions

Language	Name
English	offshore rockfish	[details]
French	rascasse du large	[details]
Italian	scorfano corallino	[details]
Portuguese	cântarobagre	[details]
Spanish	rascacio de fuera	[details]

To Barcode of Life (8 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pontinus kuhlii)
To FishBase
To GenBank (97 nucleotides; 52 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Pontinus kuhlii USNM 405124 photograph lateral view)
To PESI
To ITIS

Unreviewed

To NMNH Extant Collection (Pontinus kuhlii USNM 405124 photograph lateral view)

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