WoRMS taxon details
Pentapodus paradiseus (Günther, 1859)
282208 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:282208)
accepted
Species
Dentex filifer Castelnau, 1875 · unaccepted
Labrus iris Richardson & Solander, 1843 · unaccepted
Pentapus paradiseus Günther, 1859 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Pentapus paradiseus Günther, 1859) Günther, A. (1859). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. Gasterosteidae, Berycidae, Percidae, Aphredoderidae, Pristipomatidae, Mullidae, Sparidae. <em>London.</em> v. 1: i-xxxi + 1-524., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.8809 [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Pentapodus paradiseus (Günther, 1859). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=282208 on 2026-07-10
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Dentex filifer Castelnau, 1875) Castelnau, F. L. (1875). Researches on the fishes of Australia.Official Record, containing Introduction, Catalogues, Official Awards of the Commissioners, Report and Recommendations of the Experts, and Essays and Statistics on the Social and Economic Resources of the Colony of Victoria. <em>Intercolonial Exhibition Essays.</em> Part VII (II): 1-52.
page(s): 12 [details]
original description (of Pentapus paradiseus Günther, 1859) Günther, A. (1859). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. Gasterosteidae, Berycidae, Percidae, Aphredoderidae, Pristipomatidae, Mullidae, Sparidae. <em>London.</em> v. 1: i-xxxi + 1-524., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.8809 [details]
page(s): 12 [details]
original description (of Pentapus paradiseus Günther, 1859) Günther, A. (1859). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. Gasterosteidae, Berycidae, Percidae, Aphredoderidae, Pristipomatidae, Mullidae, Sparidae. <em>London.</em> v. 1: i-xxxi + 1-524., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.8809 [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 (10 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Pentapus paradiseus Günther, 1859)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Dentex filifer Castelnau, 1875)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Labrus iris Richardson & Solander, 1843)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pentapodus paradiseus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Dentex filifer Castelnau, 1875)
To FishBase (from synonym Pentapus paradiseus Günther, 1859)
To FishBase (from synonym Labrus iris Richardson & Solander, 1843)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Pentapus paradiseus Günther, 1859)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Pentapus paradiseus Günther, 1859; SYNTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3135231) (from synonym Pentapus paradiseus Günther, 1859)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Pentapodus paradiseus FIN031450 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Pentapodus paradiseus USNM 435659 photograph lateral view)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Pentapus paradiseus Günther, 1859)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Dentex filifer Castelnau, 1875)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Labrus iris Richardson & Solander, 1843)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pentapodus paradiseus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Dentex filifer Castelnau, 1875)
To FishBase (from synonym Pentapus paradiseus Günther, 1859)
To FishBase (from synonym Labrus iris Richardson & Solander, 1843)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Pentapus paradiseus Günther, 1859)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Pentapus paradiseus Günther, 1859; SYNTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3135231) (from synonym Pentapus paradiseus Günther, 1859)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Pentapodus paradiseus FIN031450 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Pentapodus paradiseus USNM 435659 photograph lateral view)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Hosted externally, from synonym
Unreviewed
Hosted externally
Hosted externally
