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Splendid Seabass
Malakichthys elegans Matsubara & Yamaguti, 1943
Also calledCabrilha-elegante (por) · Nagaomehata (jpn) · kanicovka nádherná (ces) · ナガオオメハタ (jpn) · 大面側仔 (zho) · 美軟魚 (zho)
First described in: Matsubara, K.; Yamaguti, M. (1943). On a new serranid fish Malakichthys elegans from Suruga Bay, with special reference to a comparison of hitherto known species. <em>The Journal of the Sigenkagaku Kenkyusyo.</em> 1 (1): 83-96.
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”.
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 Malakichthys elegans in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2381542.