WoRMS taxon details
Platycephalus speculator Klunzinger, 1872
274664 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:274664)
accepted
Species
Neoplatycephalus speculator (Klunzinger, 1872) · unaccepted
Planipora melsoni Whitley, 1945 · unaccepted (synonym)
Planiprora melsoni Whitley, 1945 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Platycephalus castelnaui MacLeay, 1881 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Klunzinger, C. B. (1872). Zur Fischfauna von Süd-Australien. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> v. 38 (pt. 1): 17-47, Pl. 2. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Platycephalus speculator Klunzinger, 1872. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=274664 on 2025-12-17
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Nomenclature
original description
Klunzinger, C. B. (1872). Zur Fischfauna von Süd-Australien. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> v. 38 (pt. 1): 17-47, Pl. 2. [details]
original description (of Platycephalus castelnaui MacLeay, 1881) Macleay, W. (1881). Descriptive catalogue of the fishes of Australia. Part II. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> v. 5 (pt 4): 510-629, Pls. 13-14. [details]
original description (of Planiprora melsoni Whitley, 1945) Whitley, G. P. (1945). New sharks and fishes from Western Australia. Part 2. <em>Australian Zoologist.</em> v. 11 (pt 1): 1-42, Pl. 1. [details]
original description (of Planipora melsoni Whitley, 1945) Whitley, G. P. (1945). New sharks and fishes from Western Australia. Part 2. <em>Australian Zoologist.</em> v. 11 (pt 1): 1-42, Pl. 1. [details]
original description (of Platycephalus castelnaui MacLeay, 1881) Macleay, W. (1881). Descriptive catalogue of the fishes of Australia. Part II. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> v. 5 (pt 4): 510-629, Pls. 13-14. [details]
original description (of Planiprora melsoni Whitley, 1945) Whitley, G. P. (1945). New sharks and fishes from Western Australia. Part 2. <em>Australian Zoologist.</em> v. 11 (pt 1): 1-42, Pl. 1. [details]
original description (of Planipora melsoni Whitley, 1945) Whitley, G. P. (1945). New sharks and fishes from Western Australia. Part 2. <em>Australian Zoologist.</em> v. 11 (pt 1): 1-42, Pl. 1. [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 (04/2025)., 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 (6 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Platycephalus castelnaui MacLeay, 1881)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Platycephalus speculator)
To FishBase (from synonym Platycephalus castelnaui MacLeay, 1881)
To FishBase (from synonym Neoplatycephalus speculator (Klunzinger, 1872))
To FishBase
To Fishbase (from synonym Planiprora melsoni Whitley, 1945)
To FishBase (from synonym Planipora melsoni Whitley, 1945)
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 6 proteins) (from synonym Neoplatycephalus speculator (Klunzinger, 1872))
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Platycephalus castelnaui MacLeay, 1881)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Platycephalus speculator)
To FishBase (from synonym Platycephalus castelnaui MacLeay, 1881)
To FishBase (from synonym Neoplatycephalus speculator (Klunzinger, 1872))
To FishBase
To Fishbase (from synonym Planiprora melsoni Whitley, 1945)
To FishBase (from synonym Planipora melsoni Whitley, 1945)
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 6 proteins) (from synonym Neoplatycephalus speculator (Klunzinger, 1872))
To ITIS
