WoRMS taxon details
Paracallionymus costatus (Boulenger, 1898)
219780 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:219780)
accepted
Species
Callionymus costatus Boulenger, 1898 · unaccepted
Paracallionymus fowleri Poll, 1949 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Callionymus costatus Boulenger, 1898) Boulenger, G. A. (1898). Descriptions of two new gobiiform fishes from the Cape of Good Hope. <em>Marine Investigations in South Africa.</em> No. 2: 3-4., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/p.366526
page(s): 4 [details]
page(s): 4 [details]
Description Occurs mostly in deep water (Ref. 4405).
Description Occurs mostly in deep water (Ref. 4405). [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Paracallionymus costatus (Boulenger, 1898). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=219780 on 2026-07-10
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Callionymus costatus Boulenger, 1898) Boulenger, G. A. (1898). Descriptions of two new gobiiform fishes from the Cape of Good Hope. <em>Marine Investigations in South Africa.</em> No. 2: 3-4., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/p.366526
page(s): 4 [details]
original description (of Paracallionymus fowleri Poll, 1949) Poll, M. (1949). Résultats scientifiques des croisières du Navire-École Belge "Mercator" Volume IV.IV Poissons. <em>Mémoires, Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique (Série 2).</em> 33: 173-269. [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]
page(s): 4 [details]
original description (of Paracallionymus fowleri Poll, 1949) Poll, M. (1949). Résultats scientifiques des croisières du Navire-École Belge "Mercator" Volume IV.IV Poissons. <em>Mémoires, Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique (Série 2).</em> 33: 173-269. [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
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Description Occurs mostly in deep water (Ref. 4405). [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | ladder dragonet | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (14 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Callionymus costatus Boulenger, 1898)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Paracallionymus costatus)
To FishBase (from synonym Callionymus costatus Boulenger, 1898)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Paracallionymus fowleri Poll, 1949)
To GenBank (16 nucleotides; 16 proteins) (from synonym Callionymus costatus Boulenger, 1898)
To GenBank (16 nucleotides; 16 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Callionymus costatus Boulenger, 1898)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Paracallionymus costatus)
To FishBase (from synonym Callionymus costatus Boulenger, 1898)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Paracallionymus fowleri Poll, 1949)
To GenBank (16 nucleotides; 16 proteins) (from synonym Callionymus costatus Boulenger, 1898)
To GenBank (16 nucleotides; 16 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To ITIS
