WoRMS taxon details
Platycephalus fuscus Cuvier, 1829
274658 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:274658)
accepted
Species
Platycephalus cinereus Günther, 1872 · unaccepted
Platycephalus mortoni Macleay, 1883 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1829). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome quatrième. Livre quatrième. <em>Des acanthoptérygiens à joue cuirassée.</em> 4: i-xxvi + 2 pp. + 1-518, Pls. 72-99, 97 bis. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Platycephalus fuscus Cuvier, 1829. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=274658 on 2026-01-03
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Nomenclature
original description
Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1829). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome quatrième. Livre quatrième. <em>Des acanthoptérygiens à joue cuirassée.</em> 4: i-xxvi + 2 pp. + 1-518, Pls. 72-99, 97 bis. [details]
original description (of Platycephalus mortoni Macleay, 1883) Macleay, W. (1883). Notes on a collection of fishes from the Burdekin and Mary rivers, Queensland. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> v. 8 (pt 2): 199-213. [details]
original description (of Platycephalus mortoni Macleay, 1883) Macleay, W. (1883). Notes on a collection of fishes from the Burdekin and Mary rivers, Queensland. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> v. 8 (pt 2): 199-213. [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). (2025). 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 (8 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (36 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Platycephalus cinereus Günther, 1872)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Platycephalus fuscus)
To FishBase (from synonym Platycephalus cinereus Günther, 1872)
To Fishbase (from synonym Platycephalus mortoni Macleay, 1883)
To FishBase
To GenBank (129 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (36 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Platycephalus cinereus Günther, 1872)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Platycephalus fuscus)
To FishBase (from synonym Platycephalus cinereus Günther, 1872)
To Fishbase (from synonym Platycephalus mortoni Macleay, 1883)
To FishBase
To GenBank (129 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To ITIS
