WoRMS taxon details

Plectorhinchus playfairi (Pellegrin, 1914)

218554  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218554)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Diagramma griseum playfairi Pellegrin, 1914) Pellegrin, J. (1914). Sur une collection de poissons de Madagascar. <em>Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France.</em> v. 39 (no. 5): 221-234. [details] 
Description Found at a depth of about 80 m as well as in littoral pools (Ref. 5213). Solitary species (Ref. 2799).  
Description Found at a depth of about 80 m as well as in littoral pools (Ref. 5213). Solitary species (Ref. 2799). [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Plectorhinchus playfairi (Pellegrin, 1914). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=218554 on 2025-05-02
Date
action
by
1997-02-24 18:26:33Z
created
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
changed
2020-12-15 13:07:03Z
changed

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Nomenclature

original description (of Gaterin batata Smith, 1952) Smith, J. L. B. (1952). Preliminary notes on fishes of the family Plectorhynchidae from South and East Africa, with descriptions of two new species. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (Series 12) v. 5 (no. 55) (art. 75): 711-716, Pl. 26. [details] 

original description (of Diagramma griseum playfairi Pellegrin, 1914) Pellegrin, J. (1914). Sur une collection de poissons de Madagascar. <em>Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France.</em> v. 39 (no. 5): 221-234. [details] 

basis of record Smith, J. L. B.; Smith, M. M. (1963). The fishes of Seychelles. 1st edition. <em>Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown.</em> i-viii + 1-215, Pls. 1-98. [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] OpenAccess publication

Other

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details] 

additional source MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds). (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp. [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Description Found at a depth of about 80 m as well as in littoral pools (Ref. 5213). Solitary species (Ref. 2799). [details]
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English whitebarred rubberlips  [details]