WoRMS

WoRMS taxon details

Pontinus furcirhinus Garman, 1899

AphiaID

274685 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:274685)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Pontinus Poey, 1860

Original name

Pontinus furcirhinus Garman, 1899

Synonymised names

Pontinus dubius Steindachner, 1902 · unaccepted

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Garman, S. (1899). The Fishes. In: Reports on an exploration off the west coasts of Mexico, Central and South America, and off the Galapagos Islands ... by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross," during 1891 ... No. XXVI. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology v. 24: Text: 1-431, Atlas: Pls. 1-85 + A-N. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Pontinus furcirhinus Garman, 1899. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=274685 on 2025-12-19

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-15 17:27:08Z

created

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Garman, S. (1899). The Fishes. In: Reports on an exploration off the west coasts of Mexico, Central and South America, and off the Galapagos Islands ... by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross," during 1891 ... No. XXVI. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology v. 24: Text: 1-431, Atlas: Pls. 1-85 + A-N. [details]

original description (of Pontinus dubius Steindachner, 1902) Steindachner, F. (1900). Erstattungen eines vorlaüfigen Berichtes über einige von Ihrer königlichen Hoheit Frau Prinzessin Therese von Bayeren während einer Reise nach Südamerika 1898 gesammelte neue Fischarten. Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe. 37: 206-208., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6175388 [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. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]

Other

context source (PeRMS) Chirichigno, N.; Cornejo, M. (2001). Catálogo comentado de los peces marinos del Perú. 2ª ed. Instituto del Mar de Perú. Publicación Especial. Callao. 314 p. [details]

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

Definitions

Language	Name
English	red scorpionfish	[details]
Spanish	lapón rojo	[details]

To Barcode of Life (12 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Pontinus dubius Steindachner, 1902)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pontinus furcirhinus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Pontinus dubius Steindachner, 1902)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Pontinus furcirhinus RAD112835-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Pontinus furcirhinus RAD112835-001)
To ITIS

Unreviewed

To NMNH Extant Collection (Pontinus furcirhinus RAD112835-001)

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