striped stingfish
Minous trachycephalus (Bleeker, 1855)
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Minous trachycephalus (Bleeker, 1855)
- Name authority
- (Bleeker, 1855)
- Common name
- striped stingfish
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Synanceiidae
- Genus
- Minous
- Extinction status
- Not supplied by this source
Source habitat flags: Marine: yes · Freshwater: no · Terrestrial: no. These do not form a complete habitat description.
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- gigaclassActinopterygii
- superclassActinopteri
- classTeleostei
- orderPerciformes
- suborderScorpaenoidei
- familySynanceiidae Swainson, 1839
- subfamilyMinoinae Jordan & Starks, 1904
- genusMinous Cuvier, 1829
- speciesMinous trachycephalus (Bleeker, 1855)
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Minous. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Minous longimanus Regan, 1908 | SynanceiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| grey stingfishMinous monodactylus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) | SynanceiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Minous andriashevi Mandrytsa, 1990 | SynanceiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Minous coccineus Alcock, 1890 | SynanceiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Minous dempsterae Eschmeyer, Hallacher & Rama-Rao, 1979 | SynanceiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Minous pictus Günther, 1880 | SynanceiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Minous pusillus Temminck & Schlegel, 1843 | SynanceiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Minous quincarinatus (Fowler, 1943) | SynanceiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Minous usachevi Mandrytsa, 1993 | SynanceiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Minous versicolor Ogilby, 1910 | SynanceiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Names & synonyms
Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.
| Recorded name | Source status |
|---|---|
| Aploactis trachycephalus Bleeker, 1855 Bleeker, 1855 | synonym |
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215614 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:43K46. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.