WoRMS taxon details
Chaetodon plebeius Cuvier, 1831
273354 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:273354)
accepted
Species
Chaetodon cordiformis Thiollière, 1857 · unaccepted
Chaetodon plebelus Cuvier, 1831 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Megaprotodon maculiceps Ogilby, 1910 · unaccepted
Megaprotodon plebeius (Cuvier, 1831) · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1831). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome septième. Livre septième. Des Squamipennes. Livre huitième. Des poissons à pharyngiens labyrinthiformes. <em>F. G. Levrault, Paris.</em> v. 7: i-xxix + 1-531, Pls. 170-208. [Cuvier authored pp. 1-440, Valenciennes 441-531. i-xxii + 1-399 in Strasbourg edition.]. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Chaetodon plebeius Cuvier, 1831. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=273354 on 2025-08-03
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Nomenclature
original description
Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1831). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome septième. Livre septième. Des Squamipennes. Livre huitième. Des poissons à pharyngiens labyrinthiformes. <em>F. G. Levrault, Paris.</em> v. 7: i-xxix + 1-531, Pls. 170-208. [Cuvier authored pp. 1-440, Valenciennes 441-531. i-xxii + 1-399 in Strasbourg edition.]. [details]
original description (of Chaetodon cordiformis Thiollière, 1857) Montrouzier, X. (1857). Essai sur le faune de l'île de Woodlark ou Moiou. Ichthyologie. <em>Annales de la Société d'Agriculture, Histoire Naturelle et Arts Utiles de Lyon (sér. 2).</em> v. 8 (1856): 417-504. [details]
original description (of Megaprotodon maculiceps Ogilby, 1910) Ogilby, J. D. (1910). On new or insufficiently described fishes. <em>Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland.</em> 23: 1-55. [details]
original description (of Chaetodon cordiformis Thiollière, 1857) Montrouzier, X. (1857). Essai sur le faune de l'île de Woodlark ou Moiou. Ichthyologie. <em>Annales de la Société d'Agriculture, Histoire Naturelle et Arts Utiles de Lyon (sér. 2).</em> v. 8 (1856): 417-504. [details]
original description (of Megaprotodon maculiceps Ogilby, 1910) Ogilby, J. D. (1910). On new or insufficiently described fishes. <em>Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland.</em> 23: 1-55. [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
context source (HKRMS)
Hong Kong marine fish database. <em>AFCD.</em> , available online at https://www.hk-fish.net/en/fish/introduction/ [details]
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 Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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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 Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | スミツキトノサマダイ | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Chaetodon cordiformis Thiollière, 1857)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Megaprotodon maculiceps Ogilby, 1910)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Chaetodon plebeius)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Chaetodon cordiformis Thiollière, 1857)
To FishBase (from synonym Megaprotodon plebeius (Cuvier, 1831))
To FishBase (from synonym Chaetodon plebelus Cuvier, 1831)
To FishBase (from synonym Megaprotodon maculiceps Ogilby, 1910)
To FishBase images (Chaetodon plebeius, Norfolk I., by Randall, J.E.)
To Fishipedia
To GenBank (24 nucleotides; 18 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Chaetodon plebeius FIN027744 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Chaetodon plebeius FIN027745 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Chaetodon cordiformis Thiollière, 1857)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Megaprotodon maculiceps Ogilby, 1910)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Chaetodon plebeius)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Chaetodon cordiformis Thiollière, 1857)
To FishBase (from synonym Megaprotodon plebeius (Cuvier, 1831))
To FishBase (from synonym Chaetodon plebelus Cuvier, 1831)
To FishBase (from synonym Megaprotodon maculiceps Ogilby, 1910)
To FishBase images (Chaetodon plebeius, Norfolk I., by Randall, J.E.)
To Fishipedia
To GenBank (24 nucleotides; 18 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Chaetodon plebeius FIN027744 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Chaetodon plebeius FIN027745 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
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