Hong Kong Register of Marine Species - Cheilinus Lacepède, 1801

HKRMS taxon details

Cheilinus Lacepède, 1801

AphiaID

204502 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204502)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Cheilininae Bleeker, 1862

Original name

Cheilinus Lacepède, 1801

Synonymised names

Crassilabrus Swainson, 1839 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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Species Cheilinus chlorourus (Bloch, 1791)
Species Cheilinus trilobatus Lacepède, 1801
Species Cheilinus undulatus Rüppell, 1835

Environment

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

Original description

Lacepède, B.G.E. (1801). Histoire naturelle des poissons. 3: i-lxvi + 1-558, Pls. 1-34. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Cheilinus Lacepède, 1801. Accessed through: Astudillo, J. C.; Williams, G. A.; Leung, K. M. Y.; Cannicci, S.; Yasuhara, M.; Yau, C.; Qiu, J-W.; Ang, P. O.; To, A. W. L.; Shea, S. K. H. (Eds.) (2025) Hong Kong Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/hkrms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204502 on 2026-07-10

Regional species database citation

Astudillo, J. C.; Williams, G. A.; Leung, K. M. Y.; Cannicci, S.; Yasuhara, M.; Yau, C.; Qiu, J-W.; Ang, P. O.; To, A. W. L.; Shea, S. K. H. (Eds.) (2026). Hong Kong Register of Marine Species. Cheilinus Lacepède, 1801. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/hkrms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204502 on 2026-07-10

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-06-06 22:00:00Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2006-09-07 06:51:43Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2013-01-04 15:09:25Z

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Bailly, Nicolas

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-12-02 12:48:54Z

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Bailly, Nicolas

2025-10-24 04:45:58Z

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Bailly, Nicolas

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original description Lacepède, B.G.E. (1801). Histoire naturelle des poissons. 3: i-lxvi + 1-558, Pls. 1-34. [details]

taxonomy source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

basis of record Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [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]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Catalog of Fishes
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cheilinus)
To Genbank
To NMNH Extant Collection (Cheilinus FIN029399 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Cheilinus USNM 399503 photograph lateral view)
To ITIS

Unreviewed

To NMNH Extant Collection (Cheilinus FIN029399 Slide 120 mm)

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To NMNH Extant Collection (Cheilinus USNM 399503 photograph lateral view)

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