WoRMS taxon details
Acentronura tentaculata Günther, 1870
217979 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217979)
accepted
Species
Acentronura mossambica Smith, 1963 · unaccepted
Syngnathoides algensis Fourmanoir, 1955 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Günther, A. (1870). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, ...[thru] ... Leptocardii, in the British Museum. v. 8: i-xxv + 1-549. [details]
Description Reaches at least 6.3 cm.
Description Reaches at least 6.3 cm. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Acentronura tentaculata Günther, 1870. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217979 on 2025-04-19
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Nomenclature
original description
Günther, A. (1870). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, ...[thru] ... Leptocardii, in the British Museum. v. 8: i-xxv + 1-549. [details]
original description (of Syngnathoides algensis Fourmanoir, 1955) Fourmanoir, P. (1955). Ichthyologie et pêche aux Comores. Mémoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar. <em>Série A, Biologie Animale.</em> v. 9: 187-239. [Dated 1954 but apparently published in 1955.]. [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 Syngnathoides algensis Fourmanoir, 1955) Fourmanoir, P. (1955). Ichthyologie et pêche aux Comores. Mémoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar. <em>Série A, Biologie Animale.</em> v. 9: 187-239. [Dated 1954 but apparently published in 1955.]. [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 (RAS)
Australian Antarctic Data Centre. , available online at https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/ [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Description Reaches at least 6.3 cm. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | タツノハトコ | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (from synonym Acentronura mossambica Smith, 1963)
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Acentronura tentaculata)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Acentronura mossambica Smith, 1963)
To FishBase (from synonym Syngnathoides algensis Fourmanoir, 1955)
To FishBase images (Acentronura tentaculata, Indonesia, by Brett, O.J. / www.tropicalfavourites.com)
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 33 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Acentronura tentaculata)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Acentronura mossambica Smith, 1963)
To FishBase (from synonym Syngnathoides algensis Fourmanoir, 1955)
To FishBase images (Acentronura tentaculata, Indonesia, by Brett, O.J. / www.tropicalfavourites.com)
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 33 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
