WoRMS taxon details
Macrognathus pentophthalmos (Gronow, 1854)
1021585 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1021585)
accepted
Species
Mastacembelus pentophthalmos Gronow, 1854 · unaccepted
(of Mastacembelus pentophthalmos Gronow, 1854) Gray, J. E. (1854). Catalogue of fish collected and described by Laurence Theodore Gronow, now in the British Museum. <em>London.</em> i-vii + 1-196. [Gray's role apparently limited to seeing existing manuscript through publication; descriptions are from Gronow.]. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Macrognathus pentophthalmos (Gronow, 1854). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1021585 on 2026-01-02
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Mastacembelus pentophthalmos Gronow, 1854) Gray, J. E. (1854). Catalogue of fish collected and described by Laurence Theodore Gronow, now in the British Museum. <em>London.</em> i-vii + 1-196. [Gray's role apparently limited to seeing existing manuscript through publication; descriptions are from Gronow.]. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [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] 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Macrognathus pentophthalmos)
To FishBase
To Fishbase (from synonym Mastacembelus pentophthalmos Gronow, 1854)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Mastacembelus pentophthalmos Gronow, 1854)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Critically Endangered)
To FishBase
To Fishbase (from synonym Mastacembelus pentophthalmos Gronow, 1854)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Mastacembelus pentophthalmos Gronow, 1854)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Critically Endangered)
