Marine Species Traits - Odax Valenciennes, 1840

Traits taxon details

Odax Valenciennes, 1840

AphiaID

270066 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:270066)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Odacidae Günther, 1861

Synonymised names

Heteroscarus Castelnau, 1872 · unaccepted

Olisthops Richardson, 1850 · unaccepted

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Species Odax cyanoallix Ayling & Paxton, 1983
Species Odax pullus (Forster, 1801)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Odax Valenciennes, 1840. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=270066 on 2025-09-16

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025). Marine Species Traits. Odax Valenciennes, 1840. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=270066 on 2025-09-16

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-15 10:18:16Z

created

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

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original description (of Heteroscarus Castelnau, 1872) Castelnau, F. L. (1872). Contribution to the ichthyology of Australia. No. 1.--The Melbourne fish market (pp. 29-242). No. II.--Note on some South Australian fishes (pp. 243-247). Proceedings of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, Melbourne. v. 1: 29-247 plus 1 p. Errata, 1 pl. [details]

original description (of Olisthops Richardson, 1850) Richardson, J. (1850). Notices of Australian fish. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1850. (pt 18) (art. 1) (for 9 Apr. 1850): 58-77, Pls. 1-3. [details]

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]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Catalog of Fishes
To Catalog of Fishes (from synonym Heteroscarus Castelnau, 1872)
To Catalog of Fishes (from synonym Olisthops Richardson, 1850)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Heteroscarus) (from synonym Heteroscarus Castelnau, 1872)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Odax)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Olisthops) (from synonym Olisthops Richardson, 1850)
To Genbank (from synonym Olisthops Richardson, 1850)
To Genbank (from synonym Heteroscarus Castelnau, 1872)
To Genbank
To ITIS