WoRMS taxon details
Ratabulus megacephalus (Tanaka, 1917)
282554 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:282554)
accepted
Species
Ratabulus megacephalua (Tanaka, 1917) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Thysanophrys megacephalus Tanaka, 1917 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Thysanophrys megacephalus Tanaka, 1917) Tanaka, S. (1917). Eleven new species of fish from Japan. <em>Dobutsugaku Zasshi = Zoological Magazine Tokyo.</em> v. 29 (no. 339): 7-12. [In Japanese. English translation by K. Matsubara in files at Calif. Acad. Sciences.]. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Ratabulus megacephalus (Tanaka, 1917). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=282554 on 2025-12-29
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Thysanophrys megacephalus Tanaka, 1917) Tanaka, S. (1917). Eleven new species of fish from Japan. <em>Dobutsugaku Zasshi = Zoological Magazine Tokyo.</em> v. 29 (no. 339): 7-12. [In Japanese. English translation by K. Matsubara in files at Calif. Acad. Sciences.]. [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 (HKRMS)
Hong Kong marine fish database. <em>AFCD.</em> , available online at https://www.hk-fish.net/en/fish/introduction/ [details]
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]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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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]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ハナメゴチ | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ratabulus megacephalus)
To FishBase (from synonym Thysanophrys megacephalus Tanaka, 1917)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Ratabulus megacephalua (Tanaka, 1917))
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 27 proteins) (from synonym Thysanophrys megacephalus Tanaka, 1917)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 27 proteins)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Ratabulus megacephalus USNM 383571 photograph dorsal)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Ratabulus megacephalus USNM 383571 photograph lateral view)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ratabulus megacephalus)
To FishBase (from synonym Thysanophrys megacephalus Tanaka, 1917)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Ratabulus megacephalua (Tanaka, 1917))
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 27 proteins) (from synonym Thysanophrys megacephalus Tanaka, 1917)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 27 proteins)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Ratabulus megacephalus USNM 383571 photograph dorsal)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Ratabulus megacephalus USNM 383571 photograph lateral view)
To ITIS
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