WoRMS taxon details
Macrorhamphosodes platycheilus Fowler, 1934
278161 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:278161)
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. Macrorhamphosodes platycheilus Fowler, 1934. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=278161 on 2026-07-10
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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]
original description (of Solenostomus tuticoriensis Venkataramanujam, Venkataramani & Devaraj, 1993) Venkataramanujam, K.; Venkataramani, V. K.; Deveraj, M. (1993). A new solenostomid fish Solenostomus tuticoriensis sp. nov. from Tuticorin Bay, South India. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India.</em> 35: 201-204. [details]
original description (of Solenostomus tuticoriensis Venkataramanujam, Venkataramani & Devaraj, 1993) Venkataramanujam, K.; Venkataramani, V. K.; Deveraj, M. (1993). A new solenostomid fish Solenostomus tuticoriensis sp. nov. from Tuticorin Bay, South India. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India.</em> 35: 201-204. [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 (6 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Macrorhamphosodes platycheilus)
To FishBase (from synonym Solenostomus tuticoriensis Venkataramanujam, Venkataramani & Devaraj, 1993)
To FishBase
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Macrorohamphosodes platycheilus USNM 93170 type radiograph lateral view)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Macrorohamphosodes platycheilus USNM 93482 nontype radiograph lateral view)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Macrorhamphosodes platycheilus)
To FishBase (from synonym Solenostomus tuticoriensis Venkataramanujam, Venkataramani & Devaraj, 1993)
To FishBase
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Macrorohamphosodes platycheilus USNM 93170 type radiograph lateral view)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Macrorohamphosodes platycheilus USNM 93482 nontype radiograph lateral view)
To ITIS