WoRMS taxon details
Microchirus frechkopi Chabanaud, 1952
274301 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:274301)
accepted
Species
Quenselia frechkopi (Chabanaud, 1952) · unaccepted
Solea frechkopi (Chabanaud, 1952) · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Chabanaud, P. (1952). Description sommaire de deux soléiformes de la côte atlantique de l'Afrique. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique.</em> 28 (69): 1-5. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Microchirus frechkopi Chabanaud, 1952. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=274301 on 2026-07-10
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Nomenclature
original description
Chabanaud, P. (1952). Description sommaire de deux soléiformes de la côte atlantique de l'Afrique. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique.</em> 28 (69): 1-5. [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
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Microchirus frechkopi)
To FishBase (from synonym Solea frechkopi (Chabanaud, 1952))
To FishBase (from synonym Quenselia frechkopi (Chabanaud, 1952))
To FishBase
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 11 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Microchirus frechkopi USNM 274759 photograph)
To ITIS
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Microchirus frechkopi)
To FishBase (from synonym Solea frechkopi (Chabanaud, 1952))
To FishBase (from synonym Quenselia frechkopi (Chabanaud, 1952))
To FishBase
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 11 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Microchirus frechkopi USNM 274759 photograph)
To ITIS
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