WoRMS taxon details
Paralichthys brasiliensis (Ranzani, 1842)
275808 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:275808)
accepted
Species
Hippoglossus brasiliensis Ranzani, 1842 · unaccepted
Pseudorhombus vorax Günther, 1862 · unaccepted
Rhombus aramaca Castelnau, 1855 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Hippoglossus brasiliensis Ranzani, 1842) Ranzani, C. (1842). De novis speciebus piscium. Dissertatio Secunda. <em>Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Instituti Bononiensis.</em> v. 5: 3-21, Pls. 1-7. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Paralichthys brasiliensis (Ranzani, 1842). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=275808 on 2026-01-20
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Hippoglossus brasiliensis Ranzani, 1842) Ranzani, C. (1842). De novis speciebus piscium. Dissertatio Secunda. <em>Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Instituti Bononiensis.</em> v. 5: 3-21, Pls. 1-7. [details]
original description (of Rhombus aramaca Castelnau, 1855) Castelnau, F. L. (1855). Poissons. In: Animaux nouveaux or rares recueillis pendant l'expédition dans les parties centrales de l'Amérique du Sud, de Rio de Janeiro a Lima, et de Lima au Para; exécutée par ordre du gouvernement Français pendant les années 1843 a 1847 ... Part 7,. <em>Zoologie. Paris (P. Bertrand).</em> v. 2: i-xii + 1-112, Pls. 1-50.
page(s): 78, Pl. 40 (fig. 3) [details]
original description (of Pseudorhombus vorax Günther, 1862) Günther, A. (1862). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Acanthopterygii Pharyngognathi and Anacanthini in the collection of the British Museum. <em>British Museum, London.</em> 4: i-xxi + 1-534., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9419277 [details]
original description (of Rhombus aramaca Castelnau, 1855) Castelnau, F. L. (1855). Poissons. In: Animaux nouveaux or rares recueillis pendant l'expédition dans les parties centrales de l'Amérique du Sud, de Rio de Janeiro a Lima, et de Lima au Para; exécutée par ordre du gouvernement Français pendant les années 1843 a 1847 ... Part 7,. <em>Zoologie. Paris (P. Bertrand).</em> v. 2: i-xii + 1-112, Pls. 1-50.
page(s): 78, Pl. 40 (fig. 3) [details]
original description (of Pseudorhombus vorax Günther, 1862) Günther, A. (1862). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Acanthopterygii Pharyngognathi and Anacanthini in the collection of the British Museum. <em>British Museum, London.</em> 4: i-xxi + 1-534., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9419277 [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). (2026). 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 (15 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) (from synonym Pseudorhombus vorax Günther, 1862)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) (from synonym Rhombus aramaca Castelnau, 1855)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Hippoglossus brasiliensis Ranzani, 1842)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Paralichthys brasiliensis)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Hippoglossus brasiliensis Ranzani, 1842)
To FishBase (from synonym Pseudorhombus vorax Günther, 1862)
To FishBase (from synonym Rhombus aramaca Castelnau, 1855)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Hippoglossus brasiliensis Ranzani, 1842)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Pseudorhombus vorax Günther, 1862; SYNTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:6721858) (from synonym Pseudorhombus vorax Günther, 1862)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) (from synonym Pseudorhombus vorax Günther, 1862)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) (from synonym Rhombus aramaca Castelnau, 1855)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Hippoglossus brasiliensis Ranzani, 1842)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Paralichthys brasiliensis)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Hippoglossus brasiliensis Ranzani, 1842)
To FishBase (from synonym Pseudorhombus vorax Günther, 1862)
To FishBase (from synonym Rhombus aramaca Castelnau, 1855)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Hippoglossus brasiliensis Ranzani, 1842)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Pseudorhombus vorax Günther, 1862; SYNTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:6721858) (from synonym Pseudorhombus vorax Günther, 1862)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Hosted externally, from synonym
