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horned searobin

Bellator militaris (Goode & Bean, 1896)

Source-backed taxonomic record

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.

Horned sea robin (Bellator militaris). Atlantic Ocean, Southeast U.S. shelf/slope area.

Horned sea robin (Bellator militaris). Atlantic Ocean, Southeast U.S. shelf/slope area.

Andrew David, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC Panama City; Lance Horn, UNCW/NURC - Phantom II ROV operator. · Public domain · Image source

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Open encyclopedia reference

Bellator militaris, the horned sea robin, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Triglidae, the sea robins. This fish is found in the western Atlantic Ocean.

Wikipedia contributors, Bellator militaris; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T05:02:29.386796+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.

Identity & source status

Scientific name
Bellator militaris (Goode & Bean, 1896)
Name authority
(Goode & Bean, 1896)
Common name
horned searobin
Rank
species
Accepted status
accepted
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Teleostei
Order
Perciformes
Family
Triglidae
Genus
Bellator
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.

  1. domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
  2. kingdomAnimalia
  3. phylumChordata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. infraphylumGnathostomata
  6. parvphylumOsteichthyes
  7. gigaclassActinopterygii
  8. superclassActinopteri
  9. classTeleostei
  10. orderPerciformes
  11. suborderScorpaenoidei
  12. familyTriglidae Rafinesque, 1815
  13. genusBellator Jordan & Evermann, 1896
  14. speciesBellator militaris (Goode & Bean, 1896)

Close classified relatives

These entries share the source’s genus, Bellator. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.

SpeciesClassificationSource status
streamer searobinBellator egretta (Goode & Bean, 1896)TriglidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
shortfin searobinBellator brachychir (Regan, 1914)TriglidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
nakedbelly searobinBellator gymnostethus (Gilbert, 1892)TriglidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Bellator ribeiroi Miller, 1965TriglidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
chevron searobinBellator loxias (Jordan, 1897)TriglidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Bellator farrago Richards & McCosker, 1998TriglidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
splitnose searobinBellator xenisma (Jordan & Bollman, 1890)TriglidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied

Browse 111 records assigned to Triglidae.

Names & synonyms

Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.

Recorded nameSource status
Prionotus militaris Goode & Bean, 1896 Goode & Bean, 1896synonym

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.

  1. https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159568 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.

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:5WGNJ. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.