WoRMS taxon details
Lutjanus dentatus (Duméril, 1861)
276531 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:276531)
accepted
Species
Lutjanus eutactus Bleeker, 1863 · unaccepted
Mesoprion dentatus Duméril, 1861 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Mesoprion dentatus Duméril, 1861) Duméril, A. H. A. (1861). Poissons de la côte occidentale d'Afrique. <em>Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.</em> v. 10 [for 1858]: 241-268, Pls. 20-23. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Lutjanus dentatus (Duméril, 1861). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=276531 on 2026-07-10
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Lutjanus eutactus Bleeker, 1863) Bleeker, P. (1863). Mémoire sur les poissons de la côte de Guinée. <em>Natuurkundige Verhandelingen van de Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen te Haarlem (Ser. 2).</em> v. 18 (1862): 1-136, Pls. 1-28.
page(s): 51, Pl. 11 (fig. 2) [details]
original description (of Mesoprion dentatus Duméril, 1861) Duméril, A. H. A. (1861). Poissons de la côte occidentale d'Afrique. <em>Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.</em> v. 10 [for 1858]: 241-268, Pls. 20-23. [details]
page(s): 51, Pl. 11 (fig. 2) [details]
original description (of Mesoprion dentatus Duméril, 1861) Duméril, A. H. A. (1861). Poissons de la côte occidentale d'Afrique. <em>Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.</em> v. 10 [for 1858]: 241-268, Pls. 20-23. [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 (10 publications) (from synonym Mesoprion dentatus Duméril, 1861)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Lutjanus eutactus Bleeker, 1863)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lutjanus dentatus)
To FishBase (from synonym Mesoprion dentatus Duméril, 1861)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Lutjanus eutactus Bleeker, 1863)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Mesoprion dentatus Duméril, 1861)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Mesoprion dentatus Duméril, 1861)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Lutjanus eutactus Bleeker, 1863)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lutjanus dentatus)
To FishBase (from synonym Mesoprion dentatus Duméril, 1861)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Lutjanus eutactus Bleeker, 1863)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Mesoprion dentatus Duméril, 1861)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
To ITIS
