WoRMS taxon details
Caracanthus Krøyer, 1845
Centropus Kner, 1860 · unaccepted
Crossoderma Guichenot, 1869 · unaccepted
Micropus Gray, 1831 · unaccepted
- Species Caracanthus maculatus (Gray, 1831)
- Species Caracanthus madagascariensis (Guichenot, 1869)
- Species Caracanthus typicus Krøyer, 1845
- Species Caracanthus unipinna (Gray, 1831)
- Species Caracanthus unipinnis (Gray, 1831) accepted as Caracanthus unipinna (Gray, 1831)
- Species Caracanthus unipinnus (Gray, 1831) accepted as Caracanthus unipinna (Gray, 1831) (misspelling)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Krøyer, H. (1845). Ichthyologiske Bidrag. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift Ser. II.</em> 1: 213-282. [details] 
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Caracanthus Krøyer, 1845. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204112 on 2026-05-27
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Nomenclature
original description
Krøyer, H. (1845). Ichthyologiske Bidrag. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift Ser. II.</em> 1: 213-282. [details]
original description (of Micropus Gray, 1831) Gray, J. E. (1831). Description of a new genus of percoid fish, discovered by Mr. Samuel Stutchbury, in the Pacific sea, and now in the British Museum. <em>Zoological Miscellany.</em> [No. 1]: 20. [details]
basis of record Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
original description (of Micropus Gray, 1831) Gray, J. E. (1831). Description of a new genus of percoid fish, discovered by Mr. Samuel Stutchbury, in the Pacific sea, and now in the British Museum. <em>Zoological Miscellany.</em> [No. 1]: 20. [details]
basis of record Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ダンゴオコゼ属 | [details] |
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Catalog of Fishes
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Caracanthus)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Centropus) (from synonym Centropus Kner, 1860)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Micropus) (from synonym Micropus Gray, 1831)
To Genbank
To ITIS
To Catalog of Fishes
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Caracanthus)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Centropus) (from synonym Centropus Kner, 1860)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Micropus) (from synonym Micropus Gray, 1831)
To Genbank
To ITIS
