African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Chorististium africanum Smith, 1954

WoRMS name details

Chorististium africanum Smith, 1954

AphiaID

317153 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:317153)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (synonym)

Accepted name

Liopropoma africanum (Smith, 1954)

Rank

Species

Parent

Chorististium Gill, 1862 accepted as Liopropoma Gill, 1861

Original name

Chorististium africanum Smith, 1954

Environment

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

Original description

Smith, J. L. B. (1954). Aberrant serraniform fishes from East Africa. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (Series 12) v. 7 (no. 83) (art. 106): 861-872, Pl. 27. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Chorististium africanum Smith, 1954. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=317153 on 2025-06-01

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-02-28 13:41:07Z

created

Bailly, Nicolas

2017-07-10 06:54:22Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

2017-08-17 13:35:34Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Smith, J. L. B. (1954). Aberrant serraniform fishes from East Africa. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (Series 12) v. 7 (no. 83) (art. 106): 861-872, Pl. 27. [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 (3 publications)
To FishBase