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Lagocephalus Swainson, 1839 
AphiaID: 126240

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Tetraodontiformes (Order) > Tetraodontidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Tetraodontidae
Synonymised
taxa
  Pleuranacanthus Bleeker, 1865 (synonym)
Sources  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, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Eschmeyer, W.: Catalog of fishes; California Academy of Sciences, department Ichtyology., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

additional source: Swainson, W. (1839). The natural history and classification of fishes, amphibians, & reptiles, or monocardian animals. London. v. 2, pp i-vi + 1-448.
page(s): 194, 328 [details]


from synonym: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] [view taxon]

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 Species Lagocephalus gloveri Abe & Tabeta, 1983
Species Lagocephalus guentheri Miranda Ribeiro, 1915
Species Lagocephalus inermis (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850)
Species Lagocephalus laevigatus (Linnaeus, 1766)
Species Lagocephalus lunaris (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
Species Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gmelin, 1789)
Species Lagocephalus spadiceus (Richardson, 1845)
Species Lagocephalus suezensis Clark & Gohar, 1953
Species Lagocephalus wheeleri Abe, Tabeta & Kitahama, 1984

Species Lagocephalus blochi Bonaparte, 1841 accepted as Amblyrhynchotes honckenii (Bloch, 1785)
Species Lagocephalus cheesemanii (Clarke, 1897) accepted as Sphoeroides cheesemanii (Clarke, 1897)
Species Lagocephalus exilis Tanaka, 1916 accepted as Lagocephalus lagocephalus oceanicus Jordan & Evermann, 1903
Species Lagocephalus guntheri Miranda Ribeiro, 1915 accepted as Lagocephalus guentheri Miranda Ribeiro, 1915
Species Lagocephalus lagocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Lagocephalus lagocephalus lagocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Lagocephalus oceanicus Jordan & Evermann, 1903 accepted as Lagocephalus lagocephalus oceanicus Jordan & Evermann, 1903
Species Lagocephalus pachycephalus Jordan & Rutter, 1897 accepted as Lagocephalus laevigatus (Linnaeus, 1766)
Species Lagocephalus pseudommus Chu, 1935 accepted as Takifugu pseudommus (Chu, 1935)
Species Lagocephalus scleratus (Gmelin, 1789) accepted as Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gmelin, 1789)
Species Lagocephalus scleratus Gmelin, 1789 accepted as Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gmelin, 1789)
Environment marine
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126240
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Lagocephalus Swainson, 1839. In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126240 on 2013-05-22
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