WoRMS taxon details
Holapogon maximus (Boulenger, 1888)
281082 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:281082)
accepted
Species
Apogon maximus Boulenger, 1888 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Apogon maximus 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): 655 [details]
page(s): 655 [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Holapogon maximus (Boulenger, 1888). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=281082 on 2026-07-11
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Apogon maximus 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): 655 [details]
page(s): 655 [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 (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Apogon maximus Boulenger, 1888)
To FishBase (from synonym Apogon maximus Boulenger, 1888)
To FishBase
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Apogon maximus Boulenger, 1888)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Holapogon maximus FIN026418 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Holapogon maximus FIN026627 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Apogon maximus Boulenger, 1888)
To FishBase (from synonym Apogon maximus Boulenger, 1888)
To FishBase
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Apogon maximus Boulenger, 1888)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Holapogon maximus FIN026418 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Holapogon maximus FIN026627 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
Unreviewed
Hosted externally
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