WoRMS taxon details
Narke capensis (Gmelin, 1789)
221344 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:221344)
accepted
Species
Astrape capensis (Gmelin, 1789) · unaccepted
Raja capensis Gmelin, 1789 · unaccepted
Raja rapensis Gmelin, 1789 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Torpedo capensis Gronow, 1854 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Raja capensis Gmelin, 1789) Gmelin, J. F. (1789). Caroli a Linné ... Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species; cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decimo tertia, aucta, reformata. 3 vols. in 9 parts. Lipsiae,.</em> 1788-93. v. 1 (pt 3): 1033-1516 [Fishes on pp. 1126-1516]., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.125970 [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Narke capensis (Gmelin, 1789). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=221344 on 2026-07-10
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Raja capensis Gmelin, 1789) Gmelin, J. F. (1789). Caroli a Linné ... Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species; cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decimo tertia, aucta, reformata. 3 vols. in 9 parts. Lipsiae,.</em> 1788-93. v. 1 (pt 3): 1033-1516 [Fishes on pp. 1126-1516]., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.125970 [details]
original description (of Torpedo capensis 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]
original description (of Raja rapensis Gmelin, 1789) Gmelin, J. F. (1789). Caroli a Linné ... Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species; cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decimo tertia, aucta, reformata. 3 vols. in 9 parts. Lipsiae,.</em> 1788-93. v. 1 (pt 3): 1033-1516 [Fishes on pp. 1126-1516]., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.125970 [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 Torpedo capensis 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]
original description (of Raja rapensis Gmelin, 1789) Gmelin, J. F. (1789). Caroli a Linné ... Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species; cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decimo tertia, aucta, reformata. 3 vols. in 9 parts. Lipsiae,.</em> 1788-93. v. 1 (pt 3): 1033-1516 [Fishes on pp. 1126-1516]., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.125970 [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] 
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (28 publications) (from synonym Raja capensis Gmelin, 1789)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (34 publications) (from synonym Astrape capensis (Gmelin, 1789))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Narke capensis)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Raja capensis Gmelin, 1789)
To FishBase (from synonym Raja rapensis Gmelin, 1789)
To FishBase (from synonym Torpedo capensis Gronow, 1854)
To FishBase (from synonym Astrape capensis (Gmelin, 1789))
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins) (from synonym Torpedo capensis Gronow, 1854)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins) (from synonym Astrape capensis (Gmelin, 1789))
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Torpedo capensis Gronow in Gray, 1854; HOLOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:2584764) (from synonym Torpedo capensis Gronow, 1854)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (28 publications) (from synonym Raja capensis Gmelin, 1789)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (34 publications) (from synonym Astrape capensis (Gmelin, 1789))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Narke capensis)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Raja capensis Gmelin, 1789)
To FishBase (from synonym Raja rapensis Gmelin, 1789)
To FishBase (from synonym Torpedo capensis Gronow, 1854)
To FishBase (from synonym Astrape capensis (Gmelin, 1789))
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins) (from synonym Torpedo capensis Gronow, 1854)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins) (from synonym Astrape capensis (Gmelin, 1789))
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Torpedo capensis Gronow in Gray, 1854; HOLOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:2584764) (from synonym Torpedo capensis Gronow, 1854)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Hosted externally, from synonym
