WoRMS taxon details
Lobotidae Gill, 1861
125543 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125543)
accepted
Family
Datnioididae Fowler, 1931 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Hapalogenyidae Parenti, 2019 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Genus Datnioides Bleeker, 1853
- Genus Hapalogenys Richardson, 1844
- Genus Lobotes Cuvier, 1829
- Genus Datniodes Bleeker, 1853 accepted as Datnioides Bleeker, 1853 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
- Genus Datnoides Bleeker, 1853 accepted as Datnioides Bleeker, 1853 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
- Genus Dattnioides Bleeker, 1853 accepted as Datnioides Bleeker, 1853 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
- Genus Hepalogenys Richardson, 1844 accepted as Hapalogenys Richardson, 1844 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
- Genus Labotes accepted as Lobotes Cuvier, 1829 (misspelling)
- Genus Lobotus accepted as Lobotes Cuvier, 1829 (misspelling)
- Genus Verrugato Jordan, 1923 accepted as Lobotes Cuvier, 1829
marine, brackish, terrestrial
Not documented
Description Marine, fresh- and brackish water. Distribution: most tropical seas. No teeth on vomer and palatine. Rounded caudal fin....
Description Marine, fresh- and brackish water. Distribution: most tropical seas. No teeth on vomer and palatine. Rounded caudal fin. Head triangular. Anal and soft dorsal with a rounded lobe posteriorly making the fish look triple-tailed. Juveniles are said to float sideways like leaves as a form of camouflage. To about 1 m maximum length, reported for Lobotes surinamensis. Genera: Datnioides and Lobotes, the former in fresh- and brackish water; the latter marine. Species: about 4. Roberts (1994) proposes the family Coiidae (also known as Datnioididae) for its single genus Coius, formerly known as Datnioides. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Lobotidae Gill, 1861. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125543 on 2026-10-29
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Nomenclature
basis of record
van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3882(1): 1-230., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 [details] Available for editors 
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context source (PeRMS)
Chirichigno, N.; Cornejo, M. (2001). Catálogo comentado de los peces marinos del Perú. <em>2ª ed. Instituto del Mar de Perú. Publicación Especial. Callao.</em> 314 p. [details]
additional source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
additional source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Description Marine, fresh- and brackish water. Distribution: most tropical seas. No teeth on vomer and palatine. Rounded caudal fin. Head triangular. Anal and soft dorsal with a rounded lobe posteriorly making the fish look triple-tailed. Juveniles are said to float sideways like leaves as a form of camouflage. To about 1 m maximum length, reported for Lobotes surinamensis. Genera: Datnioides and Lobotes, the former in fresh- and brackish water; the latter marine. Species: about 4. Roberts (1994) proposes the family Coiidae (also known as Datnioididae) for its single genus Coius, formerly known as Datnioides. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | tripletailsfreshwater tripletails [from synonym]barbeled grunters [from synonym] | [details] |
| Japanese | マツダイ科 | [details] |
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Datnioididae) (from synonym Datnioididae Fowler, 1931)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hapalogenyidae) (from synonym Hapalogenyidae Parenti, 2019)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lobotidae)
To Genbank (from synonym Datnioididae Fowler, 1931)
To Genbank
To Genbank (from synonym Hapalogenyidae Parenti, 2019)
To ITIS
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Datnioididae) (from synonym Datnioididae Fowler, 1931)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hapalogenyidae) (from synonym Hapalogenyidae Parenti, 2019)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lobotidae)
To Genbank (from synonym Datnioididae Fowler, 1931)
To Genbank
To Genbank (from synonym Hapalogenyidae Parenti, 2019)
To ITIS
