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GBIF·2392495speciesAnimalia100 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familySparidae
  5. ›genusPolysteganus
Polysteganus praeorbitalis
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IUCN VU · Vulnerable

Scotsman seabream

Polysteganus praeorbitalis (Günther, 1859)

Also calledDenté Du Natal (fra) · Dentón De Natal (spa) · Dentón Del Natal (spa) · Dentón Listado (spa) · pražman proužkatý (ces) · Натальский зубан (rus) · 前眶擬牙鯛 (zho)

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Polysteganus praeorbitalis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2392495.