WoRMS taxon details
Lobotidae Gill, 1861
- Genus Lobotes Cuvier, 1829
- Genus Labotes accepted as Lobotes Cuvier, 1829 (misspelling)
- Genus Lobotus accepted as Lobotes Cuvier, 1829 (misspelling)
- Genus Verrugato Jordan, 1923 accepted as Lobotes Cuvier, 1829
marine, brackish, terrestrial
Not documented
Description Marine, fresh- and brackish water. Distribution: most tropical seas. No teeth on vomer and palatine. Rounded caudal fin....
Description Marine, fresh- and brackish water. Distribution: most tropical seas. No teeth on vomer and palatine. Rounded caudal fin. Head triangular. Anal and soft dorsal with a rounded lobe posteriorly making the fish look triple-tailed. Juveniles are said to float sideways like leaves as a form of camouflage. To about 1 m maximum length, reported for Lobotes surinamensis. Genera: Datnioides and Lobotes, the former in fresh- and brackish water; the latter marine. Species: about 4. Roberts (1994) proposes the family Coiidae (also known as Datnioididae) for its single genus Coius, formerly known as Datnioides. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Lobotidae Gill, 1861. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125543 on 2025-03-30
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Nomenclature
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, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3882(1): 1-230., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 [details] Available for editors 
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context source (PeRMS)
Chirichigno, N.; Cornejo, M. (2001). Catálogo comentado de los peces marinos del Perú. <em>2ª ed. Instituto del Mar de Perú. Publicación Especial. Callao.</em> 314 p. [details]
additional source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
additional source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Description Marine, fresh- and brackish water. Distribution: most tropical seas. No teeth on vomer and palatine. Rounded caudal fin. Head triangular. Anal and soft dorsal with a rounded lobe posteriorly making the fish look triple-tailed. Juveniles are said to float sideways like leaves as a form of camouflage. To about 1 m maximum length, reported for Lobotes surinamensis. Genera: Datnioides and Lobotes, the former in fresh- and brackish water; the latter marine. Species: about 4. Roberts (1994) proposes the family Coiidae (also known as Datnioididae) for its single genus Coius, formerly known as Datnioides. [details]
