WoRMS taxon details
Macrocephenchelys brachialis Fowler, 1934
281475 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:281475)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fowler, H. W. (1934). Descriptions of new fishes obtained 1907 to 1910, chiefly in the Philippine Islands and adjacent seas. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 85 (for 1933): 233-367. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Macrocephenchelys brachialis Fowler, 1934. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=281475 on 2026-07-10
Date
action
by
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
Nomenclature
original description
Fowler, H. W. (1934). Descriptions of new fishes obtained 1907 to 1910, chiefly in the Philippine Islands and adjacent seas. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 85 (for 1933): 233-367. [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 (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
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 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 (14 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Macrocephenchelys brachialis)
To FishBase
To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 16 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Macrocephenchelys brachialis RAD105825-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Macrocephenchelys brachialis USNM 92347 type radiograph lateral view)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Macrocephenchelys brachialis)
To FishBase
To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 16 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Macrocephenchelys brachialis RAD105825-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Macrocephenchelys brachialis USNM 92347 type radiograph lateral view)
To ITIS
Unreviewed
Hosted externally
Hosted externally
