WoRMS taxon details
Platycephalus laevigatus Cuvier, 1829
274659 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:274659)
accepted
Species
Platycephalus proximus Castelnau, 1872 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1829). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome quatrième. Livre quatrième. <em>Des acanthoptérygiens à joue cuirassée.</em> 4: i-xxvi + 2 pp. + 1-518, Pls. 72-99, 97 bis. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Platycephalus laevigatus Cuvier, 1829. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=274659 on 2025-03-17
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Nomenclature
original description
Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1829). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome quatrième. Livre quatrième. <em>Des acanthoptérygiens à joue cuirassée.</em> 4: i-xxvi + 2 pp. + 1-518, Pls. 72-99, 97 bis. [details]
original description (of Platycephalus proximus Castelnau, 1872) Castelnau, F. L. (1872). Contribution to the ichthyology of Australia. No. 1.--The Melbourne fish market (pp. 29-242). No. II.--Note on some South Australian fishes (pp. 243-247). <em>Proceedings of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, Melbourne.</em> v. 1: 29-247 plus 1 p. Errata, 1 pl.
page(s): 85 [details]
original description (of Platycephalus proximus Castelnau, 1872) Castelnau, F. L. (1872). Contribution to the ichthyology of Australia. No. 1.--The Melbourne fish market (pp. 29-242). No. II.--Note on some South Australian fishes (pp. 243-247). <em>Proceedings of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, Melbourne.</em> v. 1: 29-247 plus 1 p. Errata, 1 pl.
page(s): 85 [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
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (9 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Platycephalus proximus Castelnau, 1872)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Platycephalus laevigatus)
To FishBase (from synonym Platycephalus proximus Castelnau, 1872)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Platycephalus laevigatus, Australia, by Schulz, S.)
To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 10 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Platycephalus proximus Castelnau, 1872)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Platycephalus laevigatus)
To FishBase (from synonym Platycephalus proximus Castelnau, 1872)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Platycephalus laevigatus, Australia, by Schulz, S.)
To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 10 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To ITIS
