WoRMS taxon details
Parascorpis typus Bleeker, 1875
221429 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:221429)
accepted
Species
Atyposoma gurneyi Boulenger, 1899 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Bleeker, P. (1875). Description du genre Parascorpis et de son espèce type. <em>Archives néerlandaises des sciences exactes et naturelles.</em> v. 10: 380-382, Pl. 7. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Parascorpis typus Bleeker, 1875. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=221429 on 2026-07-09
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Nomenclature
original description
Bleeker, P. (1875). Description du genre Parascorpis et de son espèce type. <em>Archives néerlandaises des sciences exactes et naturelles.</em> v. 10: 380-382, Pl. 7. [details]
original description (of Atyposoma gurneyi Boulenger, 1899) Boulenger, G. A. (1899). Description of a new genus of perciform fishes from the Cape of Good Hope. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> v. 1 (art. 10): 379-380, Pl. 9., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.13903
page(s): 379, Pl. 9 [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 Atyposoma gurneyi Boulenger, 1899) Boulenger, G. A. (1899). Description of a new genus of perciform fishes from the Cape of Good Hope. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> v. 1 (art. 10): 379-380, Pl. 9., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.13903
page(s): 379, Pl. 9 [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 (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Atyposoma gurneyi Boulenger, 1899)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Parascorpis typus)
To FishBase (from synonym Atyposoma gurneyi Boulenger, 1899)
To FishBase
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Atyposoma gurneyi Boulenger, 1899)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Parascorpis typus)
To FishBase (from synonym Atyposoma gurneyi Boulenger, 1899)
To FishBase
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To ITIS
