WoRMS taxon details
Conidens laticephalus (Tanaka, 1909)
280382 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:280382)
accepted
Species
Aspasma laticephala Tanaka, 1909 · unaccepted
Conidens lacticephalus (Tanaka, 1909) · unaccepted (misspelling)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Aspasma laticephala Tanaka, 1909) Tanaka, S. (1909). Descriptions of one new genus and ten new species of Japanese fishes. <em>Journal of the College of Science. Imperial University, Tokyo.</em> v. 27 (art. 8): 1-27, Pl. 1. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Conidens laticephalus (Tanaka, 1909). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=280382 on 2026-07-10
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Aspasma laticephala Tanaka, 1909) Tanaka, S. (1909). Descriptions of one new genus and ten new species of Japanese fishes. <em>Journal of the College of Science. Imperial University, Tokyo.</em> v. 27 (art. 8): 1-27, Pl. 1. [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]
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 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
Present
Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | アンコウウバウオ | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Aspasma laticephala Tanaka, 1909)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Conidens laticephalus)
To FishBase (from synonym Aspasma laticephala Tanaka, 1909)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Conidens lacticephalus (Tanaka, 1909))
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 6 proteins) (from synonym Aspasma laticephala Tanaka, 1909)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Aspasma laticephala Tanaka, 1909)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Conidens laticephalus)
To FishBase (from synonym Aspasma laticephala Tanaka, 1909)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Conidens lacticephalus (Tanaka, 1909))
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 6 proteins) (from synonym Aspasma laticephala Tanaka, 1909)
To ITIS