WoRMS taxon details
Plectorhinchus unicolor (MacLeay, 1883)
273496 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:273496)
accepted
Species
Diagramma unicolor MacLeay, 1883 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Diagramma unicolor MacLeay, 1883) Macleay, W. (1883). Contribution to a knowledge of the fishes of New Guinea No. 4. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> v. 8 (pt 2): 252-280. [details]
Status Resurrected
Status Resurrected [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Plectorhinchus unicolor (MacLeay, 1883). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=273496 on 2026-05-26
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Diagramma unicolor MacLeay, 1883) Macleay, W. (1883). Contribution to a knowledge of the fishes of New Guinea No. 4. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> v. 8 (pt 2): 252-280. [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]
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]
Taxonomy
redescription
Johnson, J. W.; Wilmer, J. W. (2015). Plectorhinchus caeruleonothus, a new species of sweetlips (Perciformes: Haemulidae) from northern Australia and the resurrection of P. unicolor (Macleay, 1883), species previously confused with P. schotaf (Forsskål, 1775). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3985(4): 491-522., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3985.4.2 [details] Available for editors 
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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
From editor or global species database
Status Resurrected [details]
To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Diagramma unicolor MacLeay, 1883)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Plectorhinchus unicolor)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Diagramma unicolor MacLeay, 1883)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 6 proteins) (from synonym Diagramma unicolor MacLeay, 1883)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Diagramma unicolor MacLeay, 1883)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Plectorhinchus unicolor)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Diagramma unicolor MacLeay, 1883)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 6 proteins) (from synonym Diagramma unicolor MacLeay, 1883)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
