Marine Species Traits - Bunocephalus Kner, 1855

Traits taxon details

Bunocephalus Kner, 1855

AphiaID

268620 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:268620)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Aspredinidae Adams, 1854

Synonymised names

Agmus Eigenmann, 1910 · unaccepted

Dysichthys Cope, 1874 · unaccepted

Direct children (15)

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Species Bunocephalus aleuropsis Cope, 1870
Species Bunocephalus aloikae Hoedeman, 1961
Species Bunocephalus amaurus Eigenmann, 1912
Species Bunocephalus chamaizelus Eigenmann, 1912
Species Bunocephalus colombianus Eigenmann, 1912
Species Bunocephalus coracoideus (Cope, 1874)
Species Bunocephalus doriae Boulenger, 1902
Species Bunocephalus erondinae Cardoso, 2010
Species Bunocephalus hartti Carvalho, Cardoso, Friel & Reis, 2015
Species Bunocephalus hertzi Esguícero, Castro & Pereira, 2020
Species Bunocephalus knerii Steindachner, 1882
Species Bunocephalus larai Ihering, 1930
Species Bunocephalus minerim Carvalho, Cardoso, Friel & Reis, 2015
Species Bunocephalus verrucosus (Walbaum, 1792)
Species Bunocephalus amaurus Eigenmann, 1910 accepted as Bunocephalus amaurus Eigenmann, 1912 (unaccepted > nomen nudum)

Environment

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

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Bunocephalus Kner, 1855. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=268620 on 2025-07-16

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025). Marine Species Traits. Bunocephalus Kner, 1855. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=268620 on 2025-07-16

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-15 10:18:16Z

created

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-12-02 12:48:54Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

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original description (of Dysichthys Cope, 1874) Cope, E. D. (1874). On some Batrachia and Nematognathi brought from the upper Amazon by Prof. Orton. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 26: 120-137. [details]

taxonomy source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Catalog of Fishes
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Bunocephalus)
To Fishbase (from synonym Dysichthys Cope, 1874)
To Genbank
To ITIS