African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Citharoides macrolepis (Gilchrist, 1904)

WoRMS taxon details

Citharoides macrolepis (Gilchrist, 1904)

To FishBase images (<i>Paracitharus macrolepis</i>, by FAO)

To FishBase images (Paracitharus macrolepis, by FAO)

AphiaID

215600 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215600)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Citharoides Hubbs, 1915

Original name

Arnoglossus macrolepis Gilchrist, 1904

Synonymised names

Arnoglossus macrolepis Gilchrist, 1904 · unaccepted

Paracitharus macrolepis (Gilchrist, 1904) · unaccepted

Environment

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

Original description

(of Arnoglossus macrolepis Gilchrist, 1904) Gilchrist, J. D. F. (1904). Descriptions of new South African fishes. Marine Investigations in South Africa. v. 3: 1-16, Pls. 19-36. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Citharoides macrolepis (Gilchrist, 1904). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215600 on 2025-05-09

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2000-09-11 06:47:01Z

created

Govaerts, Ann

2001-12-26 19:35:45Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2008-01-15 17:27:08Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description (of Arnoglossus macrolepis Gilchrist, 1904) Gilchrist, J. D. F. (1904). Descriptions of new South African fishes. Marine Investigations in South Africa. v. 3: 1-16, Pls. 19-36. [details]

basis of record MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds). (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp. [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. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]

Other

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

Language	Name
English	twospot largescale flounder [from synonym]	[details]

To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Paracitharus macrolepis (Gilchrist, 1904))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Arnoglossus macrolepis Gilchrist, 1904)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Citharoides macrolepis)
To FishBase (from synonym Paracitharus macrolepis (Gilchrist, 1904))
To FishBase (from synonym Arnoglossus macrolepis Gilchrist, 1904)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Paracitharus macrolepis, by FAO) (from synonym Paracitharus macrolepis (Gilchrist, 1904))
To GenBank (51 nucleotides; 54 proteins) (from synonym Paracitharus macrolepis (Gilchrist, 1904))
To GenBank (51 nucleotides; 54 proteins)
To GenBank (51 nucleotides; 54 proteins) (from synonym Arnoglossus macrolepis Gilchrist, 1904)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient) (from synonym Paracitharus macrolepis (Gilchrist, 1904))
To ITIS

From editor or global species database

To FishBase images (Paracitharus macrolepis, by FAO)

Hosted externally, from synonym