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Ratabulus prionotus
Ratabulus prionotus (Sauvage, 1873)
This species is in the Catalogue of Life but not yet in the 2023 GBIF backbone or on iNaturalist: most likely it was described, or split from another species, very recently. What is known so far is below.
- Also published as
- Platycephalus prionotus Sauvage, 1873; Rogadius prionotus (Sauvage, 1873); Sorsogona prionota (Sauvage, 1873); Platycephalus heterolepis Barnard, 1927; Platycephalus subfasciatus Günther, 1887; Platycephalus townsendi Regan, 1905
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Where it has been recorded
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References
- Sauvage, H.-E. (1873). Notice sur quelques poissons d’espèces nouvelles ou peu connues provenant des mers de l’Inde et de la Chine. Nouvelles Archives Du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, v. 9 (pt 2, Bulletin): 49–62, Pls B.6–B.7.
- Barnard, K. H. (1927). Diagnoses of new genera and species of South African marine fishes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 9), 20 (115) (8): 66–79. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222932708655566
From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.