WoRMS taxon details
Pagrus africanus Akazaki, 1962
273975 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:273975)
accepted
Species
Sparus pagrus africanus (Akazaki, 1962) · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Akazaki, M. (1962). Studies on the spariform fishes - anatomy, phylogeny, ecology and taxonomy. <em>Kosugi Co. Ltd., Osaka, Japan.</em> 1-368. [In Japanese, English summary on pp. 328-368, including new species descriptions.]. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Pagrus africanus Akazaki, 1962. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=273975 on 2026-07-10
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Nomenclature
original description
Akazaki, M. (1962). Studies on the spariform fishes - anatomy, phylogeny, ecology and taxonomy. <em>Kosugi Co. Ltd., Osaka, Japan.</em> 1-368. [In Japanese, English summary on pp. 328-368, including new species descriptions.]. [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 Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pagrus africanus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Sparus pagrus africanus (Akazaki, 1962))
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pagrus africanus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Sparus pagrus africanus (Akazaki, 1962))
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
