WoRMS taxon details
Sebastes pachycephalus Temminck & Schlegel, 1843
293739 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:293739)
accepted
Species
Sebastes (Sebastocles) pachycephalus Temminck & Schlegel, 1843 · alternative representation
Sebastes pachycephalus nigricans (Schmidt, 1930) · unaccepted
Sebastichthys latus Matsubara, 1934 · unaccepted (synonym)
Sebastodes nigricans Schmidt, 1930 · unaccepted
Sebastodes nigricaus Schmidt, 1930 · unaccepted (misspelling)
- Subspecies Sebastes pachycephalus chalcogrammus Matsubara, 1943 accepted as Sebastes nudus Matsubara, 1943 (synonym)
- Subspecies Sebastes pachycephalus nigricans (Schmidt, 1930) accepted as Sebastes pachycephalus Temminck & Schlegel, 1843
- Subspecies Sebastes pachycephalus nudus Matsubara, 1943 accepted as Sebastes nudus Matsubara, 1943 (synonym)
- Subspecies Sebastes pachycephalus pachycephalus Temminck & Schlegel, 1843 accepted as Sebastes pachycephalus Temminck & Schlegel, 1843
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Temminck, C. J.; Schlegel H. (1843). Pisces. <em>In: Siebold, P. F. de (ed.): Fauna Japonica, sive descriptio animalium, quae in itinere per Japoniam ... suscepto annis 1823-1830 collegit, notis, observationibus et adumbrationibus illustravit Ph. Fr. de Siebold. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] (A. Arnz et soc.).</em> Parts 2-4: 21-72. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Sebastes pachycephalus Temminck & Schlegel, 1843. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=293739 on 2026-07-09
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Nomenclature
original description
Temminck, C. J.; Schlegel H. (1843). Pisces. <em>In: Siebold, P. F. de (ed.): Fauna Japonica, sive descriptio animalium, quae in itinere per Japoniam ... suscepto annis 1823-1830 collegit, notis, observationibus et adumbrationibus illustravit Ph. Fr. de Siebold. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] (A. Arnz et soc.).</em> Parts 2-4: 21-72. [details]
original description (of Sebastichthys latus Matsubara, 1934) Matsubara, K. (1934). Studies on the scorpaenoid fishes of Japan. I. Descriptions of one new genus and five new species. <em>Journal of the Imperial Fisheries Institute Tokyo.</em> v. 30(3): 199-210. [details]
original description (of Sebastichthys latus Matsubara, 1934) Matsubara, K. (1934). Studies on the scorpaenoid fishes of Japan. I. Descriptions of one new genus and five new species. <em>Journal of the Imperial Fisheries Institute Tokyo.</em> v. 30(3): 199-210. [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
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ムラソイホシナシムラソイ [from synonym] | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Sebastes pachycephalus nigricans (Schmidt, 1930))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Sebastes pachycephalus pachycephalus Temminck & Schlegel, 1843)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Sebastes pachycephalus pachycephalus Temminck & Schlegel, 1843)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Sebastes pachycephalus nigricans (Schmidt, 1930))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Sebastes pachycephalus nigricans) (from synonym Sebastes pachycephalus nigricans (Schmidt, 1930))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Sebastes pachycephalus pachycephalus) (from synonym Sebastes pachycephalus pachycephalus Temminck & Schlegel, 1843)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Sebastes pachycephalus)
To FishBase (from synonym Sebastes pachycephalus pachycephalus Temminck & Schlegel, 1843)
To FishBase (from synonym Sebastes pachycephalus nigricans (Schmidt, 1930))
To FishBase (from synonym Sebastodes nigricans Schmidt, 1930)
To FishBase (from synonym Sebastodes nigricaus Schmidt, 1930)
To FishBase (from synonym Sebastichthys latus Matsubara, 1934)
To FishBase
To FishSounds
To GenBank (15 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Sebastes pachycephalus nigricans (Schmidt, 1930))
To GenBank (28 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Sebastes pachycephalus pachycephalus Temminck & Schlegel, 1843)
To GenBank (40118 nucleotides; 26 proteins)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Sebastes pachycephalus nigricans (Schmidt, 1930))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Sebastes pachycephalus pachycephalus Temminck & Schlegel, 1843)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Sebastes pachycephalus pachycephalus Temminck & Schlegel, 1843)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Sebastes pachycephalus nigricans (Schmidt, 1930))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Sebastes pachycephalus nigricans) (from synonym Sebastes pachycephalus nigricans (Schmidt, 1930))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Sebastes pachycephalus pachycephalus) (from synonym Sebastes pachycephalus pachycephalus Temminck & Schlegel, 1843)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Sebastes pachycephalus)
To FishBase (from synonym Sebastes pachycephalus pachycephalus Temminck & Schlegel, 1843)
To FishBase (from synonym Sebastes pachycephalus nigricans (Schmidt, 1930))
To FishBase (from synonym Sebastodes nigricans Schmidt, 1930)
To FishBase (from synonym Sebastodes nigricaus Schmidt, 1930)
To FishBase (from synonym Sebastichthys latus Matsubara, 1934)
To FishBase
To FishSounds
To GenBank (15 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Sebastes pachycephalus nigricans (Schmidt, 1930))
To GenBank (28 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Sebastes pachycephalus pachycephalus Temminck & Schlegel, 1843)
To GenBank (40118 nucleotides; 26 proteins)
To ITIS
