WoRMS taxon details
Hoplostethus mediterraneus Cuvier, 1829
126404 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126404)
accepted
Species
Hoplostethus intermedius (Hector, 1875) · unaccepted
Hoplostethus mediterraneus sonodae Kotlyar, 1986 · unaccepted
Hoplostethus mediterraneus trunovi Kotlyar, 1986 · unaccepted
Hoplostetus mediterraneus Cuvier, 1829 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Korsogaster nanus Parr, 1933 · unaccepted
Trachichthys intermedius Hector, 1875 · unaccepted
Trachichthys pretiosus Lowe, 1839 · unaccepted
- Subspecies Hoplostethus mediterraneus latus McCulloch, 1914 accepted as Hoplostethus latus McCulloch, 1914
- Subspecies Hoplostethus mediterraneus mediterraneus Cuvier, 1829 accepted as Hoplostethus mediterraneus Cuvier, 1829
- Subspecies Hoplostethus mediterraneus sonodae Kotlyar, 1986 accepted as Hoplostethus mediterraneus Cuvier, 1829
- Subspecies Hoplostethus mediterraneus trunovi Kotlyar, 1986 accepted as Hoplostethus mediterraneus Cuvier, 1829
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1829). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome quatrième. Livre quatrième. <em>Des acanthoptérygiens à joue cuirassée.</em> 4: i-xxvi + 2 pp. + 1-518, Pls. 72-99, 97 bis. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Hoplostethus mediterraneus Cuvier, 1829. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126404 on 2025-05-17
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Nomenclature
original description
Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1829). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome quatrième. Livre quatrième. <em>Des acanthoptérygiens à joue cuirassée.</em> 4: i-xxvi + 2 pp. + 1-518, Pls. 72-99, 97 bis. [details]
original description (of Korsogaster nanus Parr, 1933) Parr, A. E. (1933). Deepsea Berycomorphi and Percomorphi from the waters around the Bahama and Bermuda islands. (Scientific results of the third oceanographic expedition of the "Pawnee" 1927.). <em>Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection Yale University.</em> v. 3 (art. 6): 1-51. [details]
basis of record van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details]
original description (of Korsogaster nanus Parr, 1933) Parr, A. E. (1933). Deepsea Berycomorphi and Percomorphi from the waters around the Bahama and Bermuda islands. (Scientific results of the third oceanographic expedition of the "Pawnee" 1927.). <em>Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection Yale University.</em> v. 3 (art. 6): 1-51. [details]
basis of record van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [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 (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
context source (Bermuda) Smith-Vaniz, W. F.; Collette, B. B.; Luckhurst, B. E (1999). Fishes of Bermuda: History, zoogeography, annotated checklist, and identification keys (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists - Special Publication No.4) . ASIH, 424 pp. [details]
additional source King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 431-554. [details]
additional source McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
context source (Bermuda) Smith-Vaniz, W. F.; Collette, B. B.; Luckhurst, B. E (1999). Fishes of Bermuda: History, zoogeography, annotated checklist, and identification keys (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists - Special Publication No.4) . ASIH, 424 pp. [details]
additional source King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 431-554. [details]
additional source McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | Middellandse-Zeedorie [from synonym] | [details] |
| English | silver roughyrough-fishrosy soldierfish [from synonym]Mediterranean slimehead [from synonym] | [details] |
| French | hoplostète argenté | [details] |
| German | Mittelmeer-Sägebauch [from synonym] | [details] |
| Hebrew | צינתן ים-תיכוני | [details] |
| Modern Greek (1453-) | Οπλόστηθος Μεσογείου | [details] |
| Turkish | kutuk baligi | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (70 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Hoplostethus intermedius (Hector, 1875))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) (from synonym Trachichthys intermedius Hector, 1875)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Korsogaster nanus Parr, 1933)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications) (from synonym Trachichthys pretiosus Lowe, 1839)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Hoplostetus mediterraneus Cuvier, 1829)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (78 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hoplostethus intermedius) (from synonym Hoplostethus intermedius (Hector, 1875))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hoplostethus mediterraneus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Hoplostethus mediterraneus trunovi Kotlyar, 1986)
To FishBase (from synonym Trachichthys intermedius Hector, 1875)
To FishBase (from synonym Hoplostethus mediterraneus mediterraneus Cuvier, 1829)
To FishBase (from synonym Hoplostethus mediterraneus sonodae Kotlyar, 1986)
To FishBase (from synonym Hoplostethus intermedius (Hector, 1875))
To FishBase (from synonym Korsogaster nanus Parr, 1933)
To FishBase (from synonym Hoplostetus mediterraneus Cuvier, 1829)
To FishBase (from synonym Trachichthys pretiosus Lowe, 1839)
To FishBase images (Hoplostethus mediterraneus mediterraneus, Italy, by De Sanctis, A.) (from synonym Hoplostethus mediterraneus mediterraneus Cuvier, 1829)
To Genbank (from synonym Trachichthys intermedius Hector, 1875)
To Genbank (from synonym Hoplostethus intermedius (Hector, 1875))
To GenBank (838 nucleotides; 102 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Hoplostethus mediterraneus P08585 illustration)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Hoplostethus mediterraneus mediterraneus Cuvier, 1829)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Hoplostethus intermedius (Hector, 1875))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) (from synonym Trachichthys intermedius Hector, 1875)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Korsogaster nanus Parr, 1933)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications) (from synonym Trachichthys pretiosus Lowe, 1839)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Hoplostetus mediterraneus Cuvier, 1829)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (78 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hoplostethus intermedius) (from synonym Hoplostethus intermedius (Hector, 1875))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hoplostethus mediterraneus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Hoplostethus mediterraneus trunovi Kotlyar, 1986)
To FishBase (from synonym Trachichthys intermedius Hector, 1875)
To FishBase (from synonym Hoplostethus mediterraneus mediterraneus Cuvier, 1829)
To FishBase (from synonym Hoplostethus mediterraneus sonodae Kotlyar, 1986)
To FishBase (from synonym Hoplostethus intermedius (Hector, 1875))
To FishBase (from synonym Korsogaster nanus Parr, 1933)
To FishBase (from synonym Hoplostetus mediterraneus Cuvier, 1829)
To FishBase (from synonym Trachichthys pretiosus Lowe, 1839)
To FishBase images (Hoplostethus mediterraneus mediterraneus, Italy, by De Sanctis, A.) (from synonym Hoplostethus mediterraneus mediterraneus Cuvier, 1829)
To Genbank (from synonym Trachichthys intermedius Hector, 1875)
To Genbank (from synonym Hoplostethus intermedius (Hector, 1875))
To GenBank (838 nucleotides; 102 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Hoplostethus mediterraneus P08585 illustration)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Hoplostethus mediterraneus mediterraneus Cuvier, 1829)
To ITIS
