African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Cirrhitus mossambicus Smith, 1951

WoRMS name details

Cirrhitus mossambicus Smith, 1951

AphiaID

313091 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:313091)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Cristacirrhitus punctatus (Cuvier, 1829)

Rank

Species

Parent

Cirrhitus Lacepède, 1803

Original name

Cirrhitus mossambicus Smith, 1951

Environment

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

Original description

Smith, J. L. B. (1951). The fishes of the family Cirrhitidae of the western Indian Ocean. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (Series 12) v. 4 (no. 43) (art. 60): 625-652. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Cirrhitus mossambicus Smith, 1951. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=313091 on 2025-06-03

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-02-28 13:41:07Z

created

Bailly, Nicolas

2023-01-10 08:56:01Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Smith, J. L. B. (1951). The fishes of the family Cirrhitidae of the western Indian Ocean. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (Series 12) v. 4 (no. 43) (art. 60): 625-652. [details]

basis of record 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

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To FishBase