WoRMS taxon details
Pachypanchax playfairii (Günther, 1866)
281964 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:281964)
accepted
Species
Haplochilus playfairii Günther, 1866 · unaccepted
Pachypanchax playfairi (Günther, 1866) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Panchax playfairii (Günther, 1866) · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Haplochilus playfairii Günther, 1866) Günther, A. (1866). Catalogue of fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Salmonidae, Percopsidae, Galaxidae, Mormyridae, Gymnarchidae, Esocidae, Umbridae, Scombresocidae, Cyprinodontidae, in the collection of the British Museum. 6: i-xv + 1-368. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Pachypanchax playfairii (Günther, 1866). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=281964 on 2025-12-30
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Haplochilus playfairii Günther, 1866) Günther, A. (1866). Catalogue of fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Salmonidae, Percopsidae, Galaxidae, Mormyridae, Gymnarchidae, Esocidae, Umbridae, Scombresocidae, Cyprinodontidae, in the collection of the British Museum. 6: i-xv + 1-368. [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 (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Haplochilus playfairii Günther, 1866)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Pachypanchax playfairi (Günther, 1866))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pachypanchax playfairii)
To Fishbase (from synonym Pachypanchax playfairi (Günther, 1866))
To Fishbase (from synonym Haplochilus playfairii Günther, 1866)
To Fishbase (from synonym Panchax playfairii (Günther, 1866))
To GenBank (4520 nucleotides; 60 proteins) (from synonym Haplochilus playfairii Günther, 1866)
To GenBank (4520 nucleotides; 60 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Haplochilus playfairii USNM 12611 syntypes photograph 10 of 10) (from synonym Haplochilus playfairii Günther, 1866)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Haplochilus playfairii USNM 12611 syntypes photograph 4 of 10) (from synonym Haplochilus playfairii Günther, 1866)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Haplochilus playfairii Günther, 1866)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Pachypanchax playfairi (Günther, 1866))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pachypanchax playfairii)
To Fishbase (from synonym Pachypanchax playfairi (Günther, 1866))
To Fishbase (from synonym Haplochilus playfairii Günther, 1866)
To Fishbase (from synonym Panchax playfairii (Günther, 1866))
To GenBank (4520 nucleotides; 60 proteins) (from synonym Haplochilus playfairii Günther, 1866)
To GenBank (4520 nucleotides; 60 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Haplochilus playfairii USNM 12611 syntypes photograph 10 of 10) (from synonym Haplochilus playfairii Günther, 1866)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Haplochilus playfairii USNM 12611 syntypes photograph 4 of 10) (from synonym Haplochilus playfairii Günther, 1866)
To ITIS
