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WoRMS taxon details

Monodactylus Lacepède, 1801

AphiaID

205604 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205604)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Monodactylidae Jordan & Evermann, 1898

Synonymised names

Monodachtylus · unaccepted (misspelling)

Psettias Jordan, 1906 · unaccepted

Psettus Cuvier (ex Commerson), 1829 · unaccepted

Psettus Commerson in Lacepède, 1801 · unaccepted (synonym)

Stromatoidea Castelnau, 1861 · unaccepted

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Species Monodactylus argenteus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Monodactylus falciformis Lacepède, 1801
Species Monodactylus kottelati Pethiyagoda, 1991
Species Monodactylus sebae (Cuvier, 1829)
Species Monodactylus argentues (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Monodactylus argenteus (Linnaeus, 1758) (misspelling)

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. (2024). FishBase. Monodactylus Lacepède, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205604 on 2024-11-21

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-06-06 22:00:00Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2013-03-11 13:25:43Z

checked

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

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

original description (of Stromatoidea Castelnau, 1861) Castelnau, F. L. (1861). Mémoire sur les poissons de l'Afrique australe. <em>Paris.</em> i-vii + 1-78., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1722840#page/9/mode/1up [details]

taxonomy source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2024). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2024., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]