WoRMS taxon details
Chaetodon nigropunctatus Sauvage, 1880
273350 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:273350)
accepted
Species
Chaetodon obscurus Boulenger, 1888 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Sauvage, H.-E. (1880). Description de quelques poissons de la collection du Muséum d'histoire naturelle. <em>Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris (7th Série).</em> v. 4: 220-228. [Also as a separate, pp. 10-18]. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Chaetodon nigropunctatus Sauvage, 1880. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=273350 on 2026-07-09
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Nomenclature
original description
Sauvage, H.-E. (1880). Description de quelques poissons de la collection du Muséum d'histoire naturelle. <em>Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris (7th Série).</em> v. 4: 220-228. [Also as a separate, pp. 10-18]. [details]
original description (of Chaetodon obscurus Boulenger, 1888) Boulenger, G. A. (1888). An account of the fishes obtained by Surgeon-Major A. S. G. Jayakar at Muscat, east coast of Arabia. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1887.</em> (pt 4): 653-667, Pl. 54.
page(s): 657 [details]
original description (of Chaetodon obscurus Boulenger, 1888) Boulenger, G. A. (1888). An account of the fishes obtained by Surgeon-Major A. S. G. Jayakar at Muscat, east coast of Arabia. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1887.</em> (pt 4): 653-667, Pl. 54.
page(s): 657 [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 (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Chaetodon obscurus Boulenger, 1888)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Chaetodon nigropunctatus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Chaetodon obscurus Boulenger, 1888)
To GenBank (64 nucleotides; 59 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Chaetodon nigropunctatus FIN027734 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Chaetodon nigropunctatus FIN027735 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Chaetodon obscurus Boulenger, 1888)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Chaetodon nigropunctatus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Chaetodon obscurus Boulenger, 1888)
To GenBank (64 nucleotides; 59 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Chaetodon nigropunctatus FIN027734 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Chaetodon nigropunctatus FIN027735 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
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