WoRMS taxon details
Minous coccineus Alcock, 1890
215617 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215617)
accepted
Species
Minous superciliosus Gilchrist & Thompson, 1908 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Alcock, A. W. (1890). Natural history notes from H. M. Indian marine survey steamer `Investigator,' Commander R. F. Hoskyn, R. N., commanding.--No. 20. On some undescribed shore-fishes from the Bay of Bengal. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 6).</em> v. 6 (no. 36) (art. 52): 425-443., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939008694064 [details] 
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Minous coccineus Alcock, 1890. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215617 on 2026-07-10
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Nomenclature
original description
Alcock, A. W. (1890). Natural history notes from H. M. Indian marine survey steamer `Investigator,' Commander R. F. Hoskyn, R. N., commanding.--No. 20. On some undescribed shore-fishes from the Bay of Bengal. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 6).</em> v. 6 (no. 36) (art. 52): 425-443., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939008694064 [details]
original description (of Minous superciliosus Gilchrist & Thompson, 1908) Gilchrist, J. D. F.; Thompson, W. W. (1908). Descriptions of fishes from the coast of Natal. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> v. 6 (pt 2): 145-206. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
original description (of Minous superciliosus Gilchrist & Thompson, 1908) Gilchrist, J. D. F.; Thompson, W. W. (1908). Descriptions of fishes from the coast of Natal. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> v. 6 (pt 2): 145-206. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). 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]
Other
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Minous superciliosus Gilchrist & Thompson, 1908)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Minous coccineus)
To FishBase (from synonym Minous superciliosus Gilchrist & Thompson, 1908)
To FishBase
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Minous superciliosus Gilchrist & Thompson, 1908)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Minous coccineus)
To FishBase (from synonym Minous superciliosus Gilchrist & Thompson, 1908)
To FishBase
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
