WoRMS name details
Amblyrhynchotes honckenii (Bloch, 1785)
219919 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:219919)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Tetraodon honckenii Bloch, 1785) Bloch, M. E. (1785). Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische. <em>Berlin.</em> v. 1: i-viii + 1-136, Pls. 109-144. [Also a combined edition of two volumes, v. 1-4 in I, 5-9 in II. Also a French edition, Ichthyologie, ou Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des poissons, v. 4 published 1787.]. [details]
Description Common in tide pools, estuaries, and in the sea to depths of 400 m. Very poisonous, not touched by fishes and sea birds....
Description Common in tide pools, estuaries, and in the sea to depths of 400 m. Very poisonous, not touched by fishes and sea birds. Hands should be washed after handling this fish. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Amblyrhynchotes honckenii (Bloch, 1785). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=219919 on 2025-04-10
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Tetraodon honckenii Bloch, 1785) Bloch, M. E. (1785). Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische. <em>Berlin.</em> v. 1: i-viii + 1-136, Pls. 109-144. [Also a combined edition of two volumes, v. 1-4 in I, 5-9 in II. Also a French edition, Ichthyologie, ou Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des poissons, v. 4 published 1787.]. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Ecology
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. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
context source (HKRMS) Hong Kong marine fish database. <em>AFCD.</em> , available online at https://www.hk-fish.net/en/fish/introduction/ [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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context source (HKRMS) Hong Kong marine fish database. <em>AFCD.</em> , available online at https://www.hk-fish.net/en/fish/introduction/ [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Description Common in tide pools, estuaries, and in the sea to depths of 400 m. Very poisonous, not touched by fishes and sea birds. Hands should be washed after handling this fish. [details]Remark Date Eschmeyer, pers. comm. spelled Amblyrhyncotes hockenii in Grove et al.,1986 <252>. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | evileye blaasop | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (14 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Amblyrhynchotes honckenii)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Amblyrhynchotes honckenii, South Africa, by Randall, J.E.)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Amblyrhynchotes honckenii FIN034691 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Amblyrhynchotes honckenii USNM 325745 radiograph lateral both specimens)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Amblyrhynchotes honckenii)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Amblyrhynchotes honckenii, South Africa, by Randall, J.E.)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Amblyrhynchotes honckenii FIN034691 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Amblyrhynchotes honckenii USNM 325745 radiograph lateral both specimens)
To ITIS
