WoRMS taxon details
Rhombosolea tapirina Günther, 1862
282603 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:282603)
accepted
Species
Pleuronectes victoriae Castelnau, 1872 · unaccepted
Rhombosolea flesoides Günther, 1863 · unaccepted
Rhombosolea monopus Günther, 1862 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Günther, A. (1862). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Acanthopterygii Pharyngognathi and Anacanthini in the collection of the British Museum. <em>British Museum, London.</em> 4: i-xxi + 1-534., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9419277 [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Rhombosolea tapirina Günther, 1862. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=282603 on 2026-01-09
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Nomenclature
original description
Günther, A. (1862). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Acanthopterygii Pharyngognathi and Anacanthini in the collection of the British Museum. <em>British Museum, London.</em> 4: i-xxi + 1-534., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9419277 [details]
original description (of Pleuronectes victoriae Castelnau, 1872) Castelnau, F. L. (1872). Contribution to the ichthyology of Australia. No. 1.--The Melbourne fish market (pp. 29-242). No. II.--Note on some South Australian fishes (pp. 243-247). <em>Proceedings of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, Melbourne.</em> v. 1: 29-247 plus 1 p. Errata, 1 pl.
page(s): 168 [details]
original description (of Rhombosolea flesoides Günther, 1863) Günther, A. (1863). On new species of fishes from Victoria, South Australia. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 3).</em> v. 11 (no. 62): 114-117. [details]
original description (of Rhombosolea monopus Günther, 1862) Günther, A. (1862). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Acanthopterygii Pharyngognathi and Anacanthini in the collection of the British Museum. <em>British Museum, London.</em> 4: i-xxi + 1-534., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9419277 [details]
original description (of Pleuronectes victoriae Castelnau, 1872) Castelnau, F. L. (1872). Contribution to the ichthyology of Australia. No. 1.--The Melbourne fish market (pp. 29-242). No. II.--Note on some South Australian fishes (pp. 243-247). <em>Proceedings of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, Melbourne.</em> v. 1: 29-247 plus 1 p. Errata, 1 pl.
page(s): 168 [details]
original description (of Rhombosolea flesoides Günther, 1863) Günther, A. (1863). On new species of fishes from Victoria, South Australia. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 3).</em> v. 11 (no. 62): 114-117. [details]
original description (of Rhombosolea monopus Günther, 1862) Günther, A. (1862). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Acanthopterygii Pharyngognathi and Anacanthini in the collection of the British Museum. <em>British Museum, London.</em> 4: i-xxi + 1-534., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9419277 [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]
additional source King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 431-554. [details]
additional source King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 431-554. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (17 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) (from synonym Rhombosolea flesoides Günther, 1863)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) (from synonym Rhombosolea monopus Günther, 1862)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (21 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Rhombosolea tapirina)
To FishBase (from synonym Pleuronectes victoriae Castelnau, 1872)
To FishBase (from synonym Rhombosolea flesoides Günther, 1863)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Rhombosolea monopus Günther, 1862)
To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 9 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To NHMUK collection (Rhombosolea tapirina Günther, 1862; SYNTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:2578831)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Rhombosolea tapirina USNM 214726 photograph 1 of 10 specimens)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) (from synonym Rhombosolea flesoides Günther, 1863)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) (from synonym Rhombosolea monopus Günther, 1862)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (21 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Rhombosolea tapirina)
To FishBase (from synonym Pleuronectes victoriae Castelnau, 1872)
To FishBase (from synonym Rhombosolea flesoides Günther, 1863)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Rhombosolea monopus Günther, 1862)
To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 9 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To NHMUK collection (Rhombosolea tapirina Günther, 1862; SYNTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:2578831)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Rhombosolea tapirina USNM 214726 photograph 1 of 10 specimens)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Hosted externally
Unreviewed
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