WoRMS name details
Arius dasycephalus Günther, 1864
308427 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:308427)
unaccepted
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. Arius dasycephalus Günther, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=308427 on 2026-02-25
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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]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
basis of record 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 Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications)
To FishBase
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 8 proteins)
To NHMUK collection (Arius dasycephalus Günther, 1864; HOLOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:2585970)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Arius dasycephalus RAD115882-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Arius dasycephalus RAD115882-002)
To FishBase
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 8 proteins)
To NHMUK collection (Arius dasycephalus Günther, 1864; HOLOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:2585970)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Arius dasycephalus RAD115882-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Arius dasycephalus RAD115882-002)