Deep-Sea taxon details
Gnathophis capensis (Kaup, 1856)
217548 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217548)
accepted
Species
Ariosoma australis (Barnard, 1923) · unaccepted
Congermuraena australis Barnard, 1923 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of ) Kaup, J. J. (1856). Catalogue of apodal fish in the collection of the British Museum. <em>London.</em> 1-163, Pls. 1-19. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Gnathophis capensis (Kaup, 1856). Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217548 on 2025-05-14
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Gnathophis capensis (Kaup, 1856). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217548 on 2025-05-14
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(of ) Kaup, J. J. (1856). Catalogue of apodal fish in the collection of the British Museum. <em>London.</em> 1-163, Pls. 1-19. [details]
original description (of Congermuraena australis Barnard, 1923) Barnard, K. H. (1923). Diagnoses of new species of marine fishes from South African waters. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 13 (pt 8, no. 14): 439-445. [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
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]
original description (of Congermuraena australis Barnard, 1923) Barnard, K. H. (1923). Diagnoses of new species of marine fishes from South African waters. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 13 (pt 8, no. 14): 439-445. [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Ariosoma australis (Barnard, 1923))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Congermuraena australis Barnard, 1923)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gnathophis capensis)
To FishBase (from synonym Congermuraena australis Barnard, 1923)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Ariosoma australis (Barnard, 1923))
To FishBase images (Gnathophis capensis, by SFSA)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Ariosoma australis (Barnard, 1923))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Congermuraena australis Barnard, 1923)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gnathophis capensis)
To FishBase (from synonym Congermuraena australis Barnard, 1923)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Ariosoma australis (Barnard, 1923))
To FishBase images (Gnathophis capensis, by SFSA)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
