WoRMS taxon details
Petalichthys capensis Regan, 1904
217875 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217875)
accepted
Species
Belone megalolepis Mees, 1962 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Regan, C. T. (1904). Descriptions of three new marine fishes from South Africa. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7).</em> v. 14 (no. 80) (art. 16): 128-130. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Petalichthys capensis Regan, 1904. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217875 on 2025-11-18
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Nomenclature
original description
Regan, C. T. (1904). Descriptions of three new marine fishes from South Africa. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7).</em> v. 14 (no. 80) (art. 16): 128-130. [details]
original description (of Belone megalolepis Mees, 1962) Mees, G. F. (1962). A preliminary revision of the Belonidae. <em>Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden).</em> v. 54 (no. 1): 1-96. [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]
original description (of Belone megalolepis Mees, 1962) Mees, G. F. (1962). A preliminary revision of the Belonidae. <em>Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden).</em> v. 54 (no. 1): 1-96. [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]
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] 
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
