WoRMS taxon details
Anacanthus barbatus Gray, 1830
279601 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:279601)
accepted
Species
Psilocephalus barbatus (Gray, 1830) · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Gray, J.E. (1830). Illustrations of Indian Zoology; Chiefly Selected from the Collection of Major-General Hardwicke, F. R. S. Volume 1. Part 3. London: Treuttel, Wurtz, Treuttel, Jun. and Richter. , available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.95127 [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Anacanthus barbatus Gray, 1830. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=279601 on 2026-07-11
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Nomenclature
original description
Gray, J.E. (1830). Illustrations of Indian Zoology; Chiefly Selected from the Collection of Major-General Hardwicke, F. R. S. Volume 1. Part 3. London: Treuttel, Wurtz, Treuttel, Jun. and Richter. , available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.95127 [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
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) (from synonym Psilocephalus barbatus (Gray, 1830))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (24 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Anacanthus barbatus)
To FishBase (from synonym Psilocephalus barbatus (Gray, 1830))
To FishBase
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 7 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) (from synonym Psilocephalus barbatus (Gray, 1830))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (24 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Anacanthus barbatus)
To FishBase (from synonym Psilocephalus barbatus (Gray, 1830))
To FishBase
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 7 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
