WoRMS taxon details
Arnoglossus capensis Boulenger, 1898
219791 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:219791)
accepted
Species
Arnoglossus entomorhynchus Stauch, 1967 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Boulenger, G. A. (1898). The flat fishes of Cape Colony. <em>Marine Investigations in South Africa.</em> No. 1: 1-4. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Arnoglossus capensis Boulenger, 1898. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=219791 on 2026-07-09
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Nomenclature
original description
Boulenger, G. A. (1898). The flat fishes of Cape Colony. <em>Marine Investigations in South Africa.</em> No. 1: 1-4. [details]
original description (of Arnoglossus entomorhynchus Stauch, 1967) Stauch, A. (1967). Description d'une nouvelle espèce de Bothinae: Arnoglossus entomorhynchus n. sp. (Pisces, Teleostei, Heterosomata). <em>Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Série 2).</em> 39(4): 660–664. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
original description (of Arnoglossus entomorhynchus Stauch, 1967) Stauch, A. (1967). Description d'une nouvelle espèce de Bothinae: Arnoglossus entomorhynchus n. sp. (Pisces, Teleostei, Heterosomata). <em>Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Série 2).</em> 39(4): 660–664. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., 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] 
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (12 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Arnoglossus capensis)
To FishBase (from synonym Arnoglossus entomorhynchus Stauch, 1967)
To FishBase
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 11 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Arnoglossus capensis)
To FishBase (from synonym Arnoglossus entomorhynchus Stauch, 1967)
To FishBase
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 11 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
