WoRMS taxon details
Gnathophis capensis (Kaup, 1856)
217548 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217548)
accepted
Species
Ariosoma australis (Barnard, 1923) · unaccepted
Congermuraena australis Barnard, 1923 · unaccepted (synonym)
Gnatophis capensis (Kaup, 1856) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Leptocephalus capensis Kaup, 1856 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Leptocephalus capensis Kaup, 1856) Kaup, J. J. (1856). Catalogue of apodal fish in the collection of the British Museum. <em>London.</em> 1-163, Pls. 1-19., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12189820 [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Gnathophis capensis (Kaup, 1856). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217548 on 2026-07-09
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Leptocephalus capensis Kaup, 1856) Kaup, J. J. (1856). Catalogue of apodal fish in the collection of the British Museum. <em>London.</em> 1-163, Pls. 1-19., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12189820 [details]
original description (of Congermuraena australis Barnard, 1923) Barnard, K. H. (1923). Diagnoses of new species of marine fishes from South African waters. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 13 (pt 8, no. 14): 439-445., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1541472, https://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/getref.asp?id=191 [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
original description (of Congermuraena australis Barnard, 1923) Barnard, K. H. (1923). Diagnoses of new species of marine fishes from South African waters. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 13 (pt 8, no. 14): 439-445., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1541472, https://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/getref.asp?id=191 [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [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. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 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]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Ariosoma australis (Barnard, 1923))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Congermuraena australis Barnard, 1923)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Leptocephalus capensis Kaup, 1856)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gnathophis capensis)
To FishBase (from synonym Leptocephalus capensis Kaup, 1856)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Ariosoma australis (Barnard, 1923))
To FishBase (from synonym Congermuraena australis Barnard, 1923)
To FishBase (from synonym Gnatophis capensis (Kaup, 1856))
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Leptocephalus capensis Kaup, 1856)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Ariosoma australis (Barnard, 1923))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Congermuraena australis Barnard, 1923)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Leptocephalus capensis Kaup, 1856)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gnathophis capensis)
To FishBase (from synonym Leptocephalus capensis Kaup, 1856)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Ariosoma australis (Barnard, 1923))
To FishBase (from synonym Congermuraena australis Barnard, 1923)
To FishBase (from synonym Gnatophis capensis (Kaup, 1856))
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Leptocephalus capensis Kaup, 1856)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
