WoRMS taxon details
Polyacanthonotus africanus (Gilchrist & von Bonde, 1924)
221412 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:221412)
accepted
Species
Macdonaldia africana Gilchrist & von Bonde, 1924 · unaccepted
Polyacanthonotus vaillanti Fowler, 1934 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Macdonaldia africana Gilchrist & von Bonde, 1924) Gilchrist, J. D. F.; von Bonde, C. (1924). Deep-sea fishes procured by the S.S. "Pickle" (Part II). <em>Report Fisheries and Marine Biological Survey, Union of South Africa.</em> 3 (7): 1-24, Pls. 1-6. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Polyacanthonotus africanus (Gilchrist & von Bonde, 1924). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=221412 on 2025-06-03
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Polyacanthonotus vaillanti Fowler, 1934) Fowler, H. W. (1934). Descriptions of new fishes obtained 1907 to 1910, chiefly in the Philippine Islands and adjacent seas. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 85 (for 1933): 233-367. [details]
original description (of Macdonaldia africana Gilchrist & von Bonde, 1924) Gilchrist, J. D. F.; von Bonde, C. (1924). Deep-sea fishes procured by the S.S. "Pickle" (Part II). <em>Report Fisheries and Marine Biological Survey, Union of South Africa.</em> 3 (7): 1-24, Pls. 1-6. [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]
original description (of Macdonaldia africana Gilchrist & von Bonde, 1924) Gilchrist, J. D. F.; von Bonde, C. (1924). Deep-sea fishes procured by the S.S. "Pickle" (Part II). <em>Report Fisheries and Marine Biological Survey, Union of South Africa.</em> 3 (7): 1-24, Pls. 1-6. [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
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]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Polyacanthonotus vaillanti Fowler, 1934)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Macdonaldia africana Gilchrist & von Bonde, 1924)
To FishBase (from synonym Macdonaldia africana Gilchrist & von Bonde, 1924)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Polyacanthonotus vaillanti Fowler, 1934)
To FishBase images (Polyacanthonotus africanus, by SFSA)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Polyacanthonotus vaillanti Fowler, 1934)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Macdonaldia africana Gilchrist & von Bonde, 1924)
To FishBase (from synonym Macdonaldia africana Gilchrist & von Bonde, 1924)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Polyacanthonotus vaillanti Fowler, 1934)
To FishBase images (Polyacanthonotus africanus, by SFSA)
To ITIS
