Marine Species Traits - Terapon Cuvier, 1816

WoRMS taxon details

Terapon Cuvier, 1816

AphiaID

126092 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126092)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Terapontidae Richardson, 1842

Synonymised names

Authistes · unaccepted (misspelling)

Autisthes De Vis, 1884 · unaccepted (synonym)

Eutherapon Fowler, 1904 · unaccepted

Pterapon Gray, 1835 · unaccepted

Therapon Cloquet, 1819 · unaccepted

Theraton · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling

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Species Terapon jarbua (Forsskål, 1775)
Species Terapon puta Cuvier, 1829
Species Terapon theraps Cuvier, 1829
Species Terapon cancellatus (Cuvier, 1829) accepted as Mesopristes cancellatus (Cuvier, 1829)
Species Terapon elongatus (Guichenot, 1866) accepted as Mesopristes elongatus (Guichenot, 1866)
Species Terapon idoneus Ogilby, 1906 accepted as Leiopotherapon unicolor (Günther, 1859)
Species Terapon lambertoni (Fowler, 1923) accepted as Mesopristes elongatus (Guichenot, 1866)
Species Terapon oxyrhynchus Temminck & Schlegel, 1842 accepted as Rhynchopelates oxyrhynchus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1842) (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
Species Terapon servus (Bloch, 1790) accepted as Terapon jarbua (Forsskål, 1775)
Species Terapon sexlineatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1825 accepted as Helotes sexlineatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) (synonym)
Species Terapon timorensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 accepted as Terapon jarbua (Forsskål, 1775)

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Terapon Cuvier, 1816. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126092 on 2025-05-14

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2006-09-29 11:38:53Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2013-03-11 16:03:40Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Autisthes De Vis, 1884) De Vis, C. W. (1884). New Australian fishes in the Queensland Museum. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. v. 9 (pt 2): 389-400. [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, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details]

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

Other

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone]. , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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Language	Name
Japanese	コトヒキ属	[details]

To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Catalog of Fishes
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Terapon)
To Genbank (from synonym Therapon Cloquet, 1819)
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