WoRMS taxon details
Meuschenia australis (Donovan, 1824)
277610 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:277610)
accepted
Species
Balistes australis Donovan, 1824 · unaccepted
Navodon australis (Donovan, 1824) · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Balistes australis Donovan, 1824) Donovan, E. (1824). Naturalist's repository; or monthly miscellany of exotic natural history, etc. London. Vol. 3. [for 1825]: unnumbered pages, pls 73-108., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43088485 [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Meuschenia australis (Donovan, 1824). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=277610 on 2026-07-11
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Balistes australis Donovan, 1824) Donovan, E. (1824). Naturalist's repository; or monthly miscellany of exotic natural history, etc. London. Vol. 3. [for 1825]: unnumbered pages, pls 73-108., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43088485 [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 (2 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Navodon australis (Donovan, 1824))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Balistes australis Donovan, 1824)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Meuschenia australis)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Balistes australis Donovan, 1824)
To FishBase (from synonym Navodon australis (Donovan, 1824))
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Balistes australis Donovan, 1824)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Navodon australis (Donovan, 1824))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Balistes australis Donovan, 1824)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Meuschenia australis)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Balistes australis Donovan, 1824)
To FishBase (from synonym Navodon australis (Donovan, 1824))
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Balistes australis Donovan, 1824)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
