WoRMS taxon details
Pachymetopon grande Günther, 1859
218608 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218608)
accepted
Species
Pachymetopon glaucum Norman, 1935 · unaccepted
Pachymetopon guentheri Steindachner, 1869 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Günther, A. (1859). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. Gasterosteidae, Berycidae, Percidae, Aphredoderidae, Pristipomatidae, Mullidae, Sparidae. <em>London.</em> v. 1: i-xxxi + 1-524., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.8809 [details]
Note Type species of the genus.
Unreviewed
Type species Type species of the genus. [details]
Description Found near rocks in coastal waters. Feeds on ascideans, crustaceans, and algae. Important foodfish. Sold fresh in markets.
Description Found near rocks in coastal waters. Feeds on ascideans, crustaceans, and algae. Important foodfish. Sold fresh in markets. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Pachymetopon grande Günther, 1859. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=218608 on 2026-02-20
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Nomenclature
original description
Günther, A. (1859). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. Gasterosteidae, Berycidae, Percidae, Aphredoderidae, Pristipomatidae, Mullidae, Sparidae. <em>London.</em> v. 1: i-xxxi + 1-524., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.8809 [details]
original description (of Pachymetopon glaucum Norman, 1935) Norman, J. R. (1935). The European and South African sea breams of the genus Spondyliosoma and related genera; with notes on Dichistius and Tripterodon. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> v. 32 (pt 1, no. 2): 5-22, Pl. 2. [details]
original description (of Pachymetopon guentheri Steindachner, 1869) Steindachner, F. (1869). Eine Abhandlung über neue oder seltene Fische des Wiener-Museums, welche zum grössten Theile aus Mazatlan und China stammen. <em>Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe.</em> v. 6 (no. 16) (for 17 June 1869): 125-126. [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 Pachymetopon glaucum Norman, 1935) Norman, J. R. (1935). The European and South African sea breams of the genus Spondyliosoma and related genera; with notes on Dichistius and Tripterodon. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> v. 32 (pt 1, no. 2): 5-22, Pl. 2. [details]
original description (of Pachymetopon guentheri Steindachner, 1869) Steindachner, F. (1869). Eine Abhandlung über neue oder seltene Fische des Wiener-Museums, welche zum grössten Theile aus Mazatlan und China stammen. <em>Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe.</em> v. 6 (no. 16) (for 17 June 1869): 125-126. [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] 
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Description Found near rocks in coastal waters. Feeds on ascideans, crustaceans, and algae. Important foodfish. Sold fresh in markets. [details]Type species Type species of the genus. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | bronze seabream | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (28 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Pachymetopon glaucum Norman, 1935)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Pachymetopon guentheri Steindachner, 1869)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pachymetopon grande)
To FishBase (from synonym Pachymetopon guentheri Steindachner, 1869)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Pachymetopon glaucum Norman, 1935)
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 10 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Near Threatened)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Pachymetopon glaucum Norman, 1935)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Pachymetopon guentheri Steindachner, 1869)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pachymetopon grande)
To FishBase (from synonym Pachymetopon guentheri Steindachner, 1869)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Pachymetopon glaucum Norman, 1935)
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 10 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Near Threatened)
To ITIS
Unreviewed
