WoRMS taxon details
Bothragonus swanii (Steindachner, 1876)
279947 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:279947)
accepted
Species
Bothragonus swani (Steindachner, 1876) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Hypsagonus swanii Steindachner, 1876 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Hypsagonus swanii Steindachner, 1876) Steindachner, F. (1876). Ichthyologische Beiträge (V). [Subtitles i-v.]. <em>Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe.</em> v. 74 (1. Abth.): 49-240, Pls. 1-15. [Also as a separate, pp. 1-192, Pls. 1-15. According to 1974 reprint of Ichthyologische Beiträge the date is 1877. Date of separate may be 1876, the date we use.]. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Bothragonus swanii (Steindachner, 1876). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=279947 on 2026-06-17
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Hypsagonus swanii Steindachner, 1876) Steindachner, F. (1876). Ichthyologische Beiträge (V). [Subtitles i-v.]. <em>Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe.</em> v. 74 (1. Abth.): 49-240, Pls. 1-15. [Also as a separate, pp. 1-192, Pls. 1-15. According to 1974 reprint of Ichthyologische Beiträge the date is 1877. Date of separate may be 1876, the date we use.]. [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 (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) (from synonym Bothragonus swani (Steindachner, 1876))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Hypsagonus swanii Steindachner, 1876)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Bothragonus swanii)
To FishBase (from synonym Hypsagonus swanii Steindachner, 1876)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Bothragonus swani (Steindachner, 1876))
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 14 proteins)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 14 proteins) (from synonym Hypsagonus swanii Steindachner, 1876)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) (from synonym Bothragonus swani (Steindachner, 1876))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Hypsagonus swanii Steindachner, 1876)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Bothragonus swanii)
To FishBase (from synonym Hypsagonus swanii Steindachner, 1876)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Bothragonus swani (Steindachner, 1876))
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 14 proteins)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 14 proteins) (from synonym Hypsagonus swanii Steindachner, 1876)
To ITIS