WoRMS taxon details
Stephanolepis aurata (Castelnau, 1861)
220077 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:220077)
accepted
Species
Monacanthus auratus Castelnau, 1861 · unaccepted
Stephanolepis auratus (Castelnau, 1861) · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
Stephanolepis rectifrons Fraser-Brunner, 1940 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Monacanthus auratus Castelnau, 1861) Castelnau, F. L. (1861). Mémoire sur les poissons de l'Afrique australe. <em>Paris.</em> i-vii + 1-78., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1722840#page/9/mode/1up [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Stephanolepis aurata (Castelnau, 1861). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220077 on 2026-05-29
Date
action
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2000-09-13 07:19:12Z
changed
Garcia, Maria
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Stephanolepis rectifrons Fraser-Brunner, 1940) Fraser-Brunner, A. (1940). Notes on the plectognath fishes.--III. On Monacanthus setifer Bennett and related species, with a key to the genus Stephanolepis and descriptions of four new species. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (Series 11) v. 5 (no. 30): 518-535., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222934008527070 [details]
original description (of Monacanthus auratus Castelnau, 1861) Castelnau, F. L. (1861). Mémoire sur les poissons de l'Afrique australe. <em>Paris.</em> i-vii + 1-78., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1722840#page/9/mode/1up [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 Monacanthus auratus Castelnau, 1861) Castelnau, F. L. (1861). Mémoire sur les poissons de l'Afrique australe. <em>Paris.</em> i-vii + 1-78., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1722840#page/9/mode/1up [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
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | porky | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes) (from synonym Stephanolepis auratus (Castelnau, 1861))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Stephanolepis rectifrons Fraser-Brunner, 1940)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Monacanthus auratus Castelnau, 1861)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Stephanolepis auratus) (from synonym Stephanolepis auratus (Castelnau, 1861))
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Monacanthus auratus Castelnau, 1861)
To FishBase (from synonym Stephanolepis rectifrons Fraser-Brunner, 1940)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Monacanthus auratus Castelnau, 1861)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Stephanolepis auratus (Castelnau, 1861))
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) (from synonym Stephanolepis auratus (Castelnau, 1861))
To NHMUK collection (Stephanolepis rectifrons Fraser-Brunner, 1940; HOLOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:2503389) (from synonym Stephanolepis rectifrons Fraser-Brunner, 1940)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Stephanolepis rectifrons Fraser-Brunner, 1940)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Monacanthus auratus Castelnau, 1861)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Stephanolepis auratus) (from synonym Stephanolepis auratus (Castelnau, 1861))
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Monacanthus auratus Castelnau, 1861)
To FishBase (from synonym Stephanolepis rectifrons Fraser-Brunner, 1940)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Monacanthus auratus Castelnau, 1861)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Stephanolepis auratus (Castelnau, 1861))
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) (from synonym Stephanolepis auratus (Castelnau, 1861))
To NHMUK collection (Stephanolepis rectifrons Fraser-Brunner, 1940; HOLOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:2503389) (from synonym Stephanolepis rectifrons Fraser-Brunner, 1940)
To ITIS
