African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Saurus myops (Forster, 1801)

AfReMaS name details

Saurus myops (Forster, 1801)

AphiaID

321206 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:321206)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Trachinocephalus myops (Forster, 1801)

Rank

Species

Parent

Saurus Cuvier, 1816 accepted as Synodus Scopoli, 1777

Original name

Salmo myops Forster, 1801

Environment

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

Original description

(of ) Bloch, M.E.; Schneider, J.G. (1801). M.E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. <em>Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. Berolini. Sumtibus Auctoris Impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano Commissum.</em> Pp i-lx + 1-584, Pls. 1-110., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/5750#/summary
page(s): 421 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2021). FishBase. Saurus myops (Forster, 1801). Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2021) African Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=321206 on 2025-05-31

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025). African Register of Marine Species. Saurus myops (Forster, 1801). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=321206 on 2025-05-31

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-02-28 13:41:07Z

created

Bailly, Nicolas

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of ) Bloch, M.E.; Schneider, J.G. (1801). M.E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. <em>Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. Berolini. Sumtibus Auctoris Impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano Commissum.</em> Pp i-lx + 1-584, Pls. 1-110., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/5750#/summary
page(s): 421 [details]

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

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (65 publications)
To FishBase
To GenBank (146 nucleotides; 156 proteins)