WoRMS taxon details
Sparodon durbanensis (Castelnau, 1861)
218627 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218627)
accepted
Species
Sargus durbanensis Castelnau, 1861 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Sargus durbanensis Castelnau, 1861) Castelnau, F. L. (1861). Mémoire sur les poissons de l'Afrique australe. <em>Paris.</em> i-vii + 1-78., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1722840#page/9/mode/1up [details]
Note Type species of the genus.
Unreviewed
Type species Type species of the genus. [details]
Description One of the best known angling fishes of South Africa. Inhabits shallow coastal waters, mainly off rocky shores down to 80 m...
Description One of the best known angling fishes of South Africa. Inhabits shallow coastal waters, mainly off rocky shores down to 80 m depth. Young occur in tidal pools along the southern and southeastern coasts of South Africa, from October to January. Feeds mainly on molluscs (Ref. 5213). An important foodfish. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Sparodon durbanensis (Castelnau, 1861). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=218627 on 2026-07-10
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Sargus durbanensis Castelnau, 1861) Castelnau, F. L. (1861). Mémoire sur les poissons de l'Afrique australe. <em>Paris.</em> i-vii + 1-78., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1722840#page/9/mode/1up [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]
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 One of the best known angling fishes of South Africa. Inhabits shallow coastal waters, mainly off rocky shores down to 80 m depth. Young occur in tidal pools along the southern and southeastern coasts of South Africa, from October to January. Feeds mainly on molluscs (Ref. 5213). An important foodfish. [details]Type species Type species of the genus. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | musselcracker seabream | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (11 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Sargus durbanensis Castelnau, 1861)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Sparodon durbanensis)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Sargus durbanensis Castelnau, 1861)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 6 proteins) (from synonym Sargus durbanensis Castelnau, 1861)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Near Threatened)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Sargus durbanensis Castelnau, 1861)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Sparodon durbanensis)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Sargus durbanensis Castelnau, 1861)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 6 proteins) (from synonym Sargus durbanensis Castelnau, 1861)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Near Threatened)
To ITIS
