WoRMS taxon details
Prototroctes maraena Günther, 1864
282385 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:282385)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Günther, A. (1864). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Siluridae, Characinidae, Haplochitonidae, Sternoptychidae, Scopelidae, Stomiatidae in the collection of the British Museum. v. 5: i-xxii + 1-455. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Prototroctes maraena Günther, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=282385 on 2026-02-23
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Nomenclature
original description
Günther, A. (1864). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Siluridae, Characinidae, Haplochitonidae, Sternoptychidae, Scopelidae, Stomiatidae in the collection of the British Museum. v. 5: i-xxii + 1-455. [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
context source (RAS)
Australian Antarctic Data Centre. , available online at https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/ [details]
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]
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 (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Prototroctes maraena)
To FishBase
To GenBank (52 nucleotides; 92 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Vulnerable)
To NHMUK collection (Prototroctes maraena Günther, 1864; HOLOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:2594858)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Prototroctes maraena)
To FishBase
To GenBank (52 nucleotides; 92 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Vulnerable)
To NHMUK collection (Prototroctes maraena Günther, 1864; HOLOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:2594858)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
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