WoRMS taxon details
Holacanthus africanus Cadenat, 1951
276011 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:276011)
accepted
Species
Holocanthus africanus Cadenat, 1951 · unaccepted (misspelling)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Cadenat, J. (1951). Initiations Africaines. III. Poissons de mer du Sénégal. <em>Institute Francais d'Afrique Noire.</em> 1-345. [1950 on cover, apparently published in 1951.]. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Holacanthus africanus Cadenat, 1951. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=276011 on 2026-01-19
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Nomenclature
original description
Cadenat, J. (1951). Initiations Africaines. III. Poissons de mer du Sénégal. <em>Institute Francais d'Afrique Noire.</em> 1-345. [1950 on cover, apparently published in 1951.]. [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 (5 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Holocanthus africanus Cadenat, 1951)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Holacanthus africanus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Holocanthus africanus Cadenat, 1951)
To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 30 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Holocanthus africanus Cadenat, 1951)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Holacanthus africanus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Holocanthus africanus Cadenat, 1951)
To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 30 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
