Species details : Platybelone argalus (Lesueur, 1821)

Accepted scientific name:
Platybelone argalus (Lesueur, 1821) (accepted name) 1 literature reference for Platybelone argalus  (Lesueur, 1821)
Synonyms: -
Infraspecific taxon: Platybelone argalus annobonensis Collette & Parin, 1970
Platybelone argalus argalus (Lesueur, 1821)
Platybelone argalus lovii (Günther, 1866)
Platybelone argalus platura (Rüppell, 1837)
Platybelone argalus platyura (Bennett, 1832)
Platybelone argalus pterura (Osburn & Nichols, 1916)
Platybelone argalus trachura (Valenciennes, 1846)
Common names: -
Classification:
Kingdom Animalia CoL
Phylum Chordata CoL
Class Actinopterygii FishBase
Order Beloniformes FishBase
Family Belonidae FishBase
Genus Platybelone FishBase
Distribution: -
Lifezones: Marine
Additional data: Issue on validity of subspecies: subspecies considered as valid in FB, elevated to species rank as Platybelone argalus (Lesueur, 1821) in Eschmeyer (CofF ver. Mar. 2011: Ref. 86697). Please send references, or more studies are needed.
Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Group expert : Collette, B., 30-Sep-2011
Source database: FishBase, Jan 2015   99%
Bibliographic citation: Froese R. & Pauly D. (eds) (2025). FishBase (version Jan 2015). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2015 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Kunze T., Flann C., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., eds). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858.
Online resource: http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?ID=973
CoL taxon LSID: urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:fda14877-ac8e-11e3-805d-020044200006:col20150401