Hong Kong Register of Marine Species

HKRMS taxon details

Atropus Oken, 1817

AphiaID

268441 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:268441)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Carangidae Rafinesque, 1815

Direct children (3)

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Species Atropus armatus (Forsskål, 1775)
Species Atropus atropos (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
Species Atropus mentalis (Cuvier, 1833)

Environment

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

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2021). FishBase. Atropus Oken, 1817. 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.) (2021) Hong Kong Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/hkrms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=268441 on 2026-06-10

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. Atropus Oken, 1817. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/hkrms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=268441 on 2026-06-10

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-15 10:18:16Z

created

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

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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]

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 (Atropus)
To Genbank
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