WoRMS taxon details
Oplegnathus conwayi Richardson, 1840
218776 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218776)
accepted
Species
Hoplegnathus algoensis Gilchrist & Thompson, 1916 · unaccepted
Hoplegnathus conwayi (Richardson, 1840) · unaccepted
Ichthyorhamphos pappei Castelnau, 1861 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Ichthyorhamphus pappei Castelnau, 1861 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
Oplegnathus algoensis Gilchrist & Thompson, 1916 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Oplegnathus conwaii Richardson, 1840 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Richardson, J. (1840). On a collection of fishes... made at Port Arthur in Van Diemen's Land, by Deputy-Assistant-Commissary-General Lemprière, . <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1840.</em> (pt 8, no. 87): 25-30. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Oplegnathus conwayi Richardson, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=218776 on 2026-07-10
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Nomenclature
original description
Richardson, J. (1840). On a collection of fishes... made at Port Arthur in Van Diemen's Land, by Deputy-Assistant-Commissary-General Lemprière, . <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1840.</em> (pt 8, no. 87): 25-30. [details]
original description (of Ichthyorhamphos pappei Castelnau, 1861) Castelnau, F. L. (1861). Mémoire sur les poissons de l'Afrique australe. <em>Paris.</em> i-vii + 1-78., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1722840#page/9/mode/1up [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 Ichthyorhamphos pappei Castelnau, 1861) Castelnau, F. L. (1861). Mémoire sur les poissons de l'Afrique australe. <em>Paris.</em> i-vii + 1-78., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1722840#page/9/mode/1up [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 (12 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Hoplegnathus conwayi (Richardson, 1840))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Hoplegnathus algoensis Gilchrist & Thompson, 1916)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Oplegnathus conwaii Richardson, 1840)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Oplegnathus conwayi)
To FishBase (from synonym Oplegnathus conwaii Richardson, 1840)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Hoplegnathus conwayi (Richardson, 1840))
To FishBase (from synonym Ichthyorhamphos pappei Castelnau, 1861)
To FishBase (from synonym Hoplegnathus algoensis Gilchrist & Thompson, 1916)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Oplegnathus conwaii Richardson, 1840)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Hoplegnathus conwayi (Richardson, 1840))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Hoplegnathus algoensis Gilchrist & Thompson, 1916)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Oplegnathus conwaii Richardson, 1840)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Oplegnathus conwayi)
To FishBase (from synonym Oplegnathus conwaii Richardson, 1840)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Hoplegnathus conwayi (Richardson, 1840))
To FishBase (from synonym Ichthyorhamphos pappei Castelnau, 1861)
To FishBase (from synonym Hoplegnathus algoensis Gilchrist & Thompson, 1916)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Oplegnathus conwaii Richardson, 1840)
To ITIS
