WoRMS taxon details
Thalassophryne maculosa Günther, 1861
282954 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:282954)
accepted
Species
Batrachus uranoscopus Guichenot, 1866 · unaccepted
Thalassophryne uranoscopus (Guichenot, 1866) · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Thalassophryne wehekindi Fowler, 1931 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Günther, A. (1861). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. Gobiidae, Discoboli, Pediculati, Blenniidae, Labyrinthici, Mugilidae, Notacanthi. <em>London.</em> v. 3: i-xxv + 1-586 + i-x. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Thalassophryne maculosa Günther, 1861. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=282954 on 2026-07-09
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Nomenclature
original description
Günther, A. (1861). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. Gobiidae, Discoboli, Pediculati, Blenniidae, Labyrinthici, Mugilidae, Notacanthi. <em>London.</em> v. 3: i-xxv + 1-586 + i-x. [details]
original description (of Thalassophryne wehekindi Fowler, 1931) Fowler, H. W. (1931). Fishes obtained by the Barber Asphalt Company in Trinidad and Venezuela in 1930. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 83: 391-410. [details]
original description (of Batrachus uranoscopus Guichenot, 1866) Guichenot, A. (1866). Catalogue des poissons de Madagascar de la Collection du Musée de Paris avec la description de plusieurs espèces nouvelles. <em>Mémoires de la Société Impériale des Sciences Naturelles de Cherbourg.</em> v. 12 (= Ser. 2, v. 2): 129-148. [details]
original description (of Thalassophryne wehekindi Fowler, 1931) Fowler, H. W. (1931). Fishes obtained by the Barber Asphalt Company in Trinidad and Venezuela in 1930. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 83: 391-410. [details]
original description (of Batrachus uranoscopus Guichenot, 1866) Guichenot, A. (1866). Catalogue des poissons de Madagascar de la Collection du Musée de Paris avec la description de plusieurs espèces nouvelles. <em>Mémoires de la Société Impériale des Sciences Naturelles de Cherbourg.</em> v. 12 (= Ser. 2, v. 2): 129-148. [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 (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (37 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Batrachus uranoscopus Guichenot, 1866)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Thalassophryne maculosa)
To FishBase (from synonym Thalassophryne wehekindi Fowler, 1931)
To FishBase (from synonym Batrachus uranoscopus Guichenot, 1866)
To FishBase
To FishSounds
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To IUCN Red List (Vulnerable) (from synonym Thalassophryne uranoscopus (Guichenot, 1866))
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (37 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Batrachus uranoscopus Guichenot, 1866)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Thalassophryne maculosa)
To FishBase (from synonym Thalassophryne wehekindi Fowler, 1931)
To FishBase (from synonym Batrachus uranoscopus Guichenot, 1866)
To FishBase
To FishSounds
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To IUCN Red List (Vulnerable) (from synonym Thalassophryne uranoscopus (Guichenot, 1866))
To ITIS
