WoRMS taxon details
Pterotolithus maculatus (Cuvier, 1830)
282507 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:282507)
accepted
Species
Otolithes maculatus Cuvier, 1830 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Otolithoides maculatus (Cuvier, 1830) · unaccepted
Otolithus bispinosus Cuvier, 1830 · unaccepted
Otolithus maculatus Cuvier, 1830 · unaccepted
Otolithus submaculatus Blyth, 1860 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Otolithes maculatus Cuvier, 1830) Cuvier, G. ; Valenciennes, A. (1830). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome cinquième. Livre cinquième. Des Sciénoïdes. Livre cinquième. Des Sciénoïdes. v. 5: i-xxviii + 1-499 + 4 pp., Pls. 100-140. [Cuvier authored volume. i-xx + 1-374 in Strasbourg edition.]. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Pterotolithus maculatus (Cuvier, 1830). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=282507 on 2026-07-13
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Otolithus bispinosus Cuvier, 1830) Cuvier, G. ; Valenciennes, A. (1830). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome cinquième. Livre cinquième. Des Sciénoïdes. Livre cinquième. Des Sciénoïdes. v. 5: i-xxviii + 1-499 + 4 pp., Pls. 100-140. [Cuvier authored volume. i-xx + 1-374 in Strasbourg edition.].
page(s): 65 [details]
original description (of Otolithus submaculatus Blyth, 1860) Blyth, E. (1860). Report on some fishes received chiefly from the Sitang River and its tributary streams, Tenasserim Provinces. <em>Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal .</em> v. 29 (no. 2): 138-174.
page(s): 141 [details]
original description (of Otolithes maculatus Cuvier, 1830) Cuvier, G. ; Valenciennes, A. (1830). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome cinquième. Livre cinquième. Des Sciénoïdes. Livre cinquième. Des Sciénoïdes. v. 5: i-xxviii + 1-499 + 4 pp., Pls. 100-140. [Cuvier authored volume. i-xx + 1-374 in Strasbourg edition.]. [details]
page(s): 65 [details]
original description (of Otolithus submaculatus Blyth, 1860) Blyth, E. (1860). Report on some fishes received chiefly from the Sitang River and its tributary streams, Tenasserim Provinces. <em>Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal .</em> v. 29 (no. 2): 138-174.
page(s): 141 [details]
original description (of Otolithes maculatus Cuvier, 1830) Cuvier, G. ; Valenciennes, A. (1830). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome cinquième. Livre cinquième. Des Sciénoïdes. Livre cinquième. Des Sciénoïdes. v. 5: i-xxviii + 1-499 + 4 pp., Pls. 100-140. [Cuvier authored volume. i-xx + 1-374 in Strasbourg edition.]. [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) (from synonym Otolithes maculatus Cuvier, 1830)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (36 publications) (from synonym Otolithus maculatus Cuvier, 1830)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Otolithus submaculatus Blyth, 1860)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Otolithus bispinosus Cuvier, 1830)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pterotolithus maculatus)
To FishBase (from synonym Otolithoides maculatus (Cuvier, 1830))
To FishBase (from synonym Otolithus bispinosus Cuvier, 1830)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Otolithus maculatus Cuvier, 1830)
To FishBase (from synonym Otolithes maculatus Cuvier, 1830)
To FishBase (from synonym Otolithus submaculatus Blyth, 1860)
To GenBank (17 nucleotides; 13 proteins) (from synonym Otolithes maculatus Cuvier, 1830)
To GenBank (17 nucleotides; 13 proteins) (from synonym Otolithus maculatus Cuvier, 1830)
To GenBank (17 nucleotides; 13 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Otolithes maculatus Cuvier, 1830)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (36 publications) (from synonym Otolithus maculatus Cuvier, 1830)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Otolithus submaculatus Blyth, 1860)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Otolithus bispinosus Cuvier, 1830)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pterotolithus maculatus)
To FishBase (from synonym Otolithoides maculatus (Cuvier, 1830))
To FishBase (from synonym Otolithus bispinosus Cuvier, 1830)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Otolithus maculatus Cuvier, 1830)
To FishBase (from synonym Otolithes maculatus Cuvier, 1830)
To FishBase (from synonym Otolithus submaculatus Blyth, 1860)
To GenBank (17 nucleotides; 13 proteins) (from synonym Otolithes maculatus Cuvier, 1830)
To GenBank (17 nucleotides; 13 proteins) (from synonym Otolithus maculatus Cuvier, 1830)
To GenBank (17 nucleotides; 13 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS