WoRMS taxon details
Polyamblyodon gibbosum (Pellegrin, 1914)
218612 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218612)
accepted
Species
Pachymetopon gibbosus Pellegrin, 1914 · unaccepted
Polyamblyodon cristiceps Smith, 1940 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Pachymetopon gibbosus Pellegrin, 1914) Pellegrin, J. (1914). Sur un Sparidé nouveau de Madagascar appartenant au genre Pachymetopon. <em>Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France.</em> v. 39 (no. 6): 264-266. [details]
Description Caught usually near rocky reefs. Feeds on invertebrates, mainly crustaceans and molluscs. Utilzed fresh.
Description Caught usually near rocky reefs. Feeds on invertebrates, mainly crustaceans and molluscs. Utilzed fresh. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Polyamblyodon gibbosum (Pellegrin, 1914). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=218612 on 2026-07-10
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Polyamblyodon cristiceps Smith, 1940) Smith, J. L. B. (1940). Sparid fishes from Portuguese East Africa, with a note on the genus Gymnocranius Klunzinger. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa.</em> v. 28 (pt 2): 175-182, Pl. 50., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00359194009520011 [details]
original description (of Pachymetopon gibbosus Pellegrin, 1914) Pellegrin, J. (1914). Sur un Sparidé nouveau de Madagascar appartenant au genre Pachymetopon. <em>Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France.</em> v. 39 (no. 6): 264-266. [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 Pachymetopon gibbosus Pellegrin, 1914) Pellegrin, J. (1914). Sur un Sparidé nouveau de Madagascar appartenant au genre Pachymetopon. <em>Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France.</em> v. 39 (no. 6): 264-266. [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
Unreviewed
Description Caught usually near rocky reefs. Feeds on invertebrates, mainly crustaceans and molluscs. Utilzed fresh. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | knife-back seabream | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Pachymetopon gibbosus Pellegrin, 1914)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Polyamblyodon gibbosum)
To FishBase (from synonym Polyamblyodon cristiceps Smith, 1940)
To FishBase (from synonym Pachymetopon gibbosus Pellegrin, 1914)
To FishBase
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 4 proteins) (from synonym Pachymetopon gibbosus Pellegrin, 1914)
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Pachymetopon gibbosus Pellegrin, 1914)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Polyamblyodon gibbosum)
To FishBase (from synonym Polyamblyodon cristiceps Smith, 1940)
To FishBase (from synonym Pachymetopon gibbosus Pellegrin, 1914)
To FishBase
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 4 proteins) (from synonym Pachymetopon gibbosus Pellegrin, 1914)
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
