Images attached to GBIF records (museum & herbarium specimens), from . Open licences; click for the record.
Largehead Lizardfish
Synodus macrocephalus Cressey, 1981
Also calledještěrohlavec velkohlavý (ces)
First described in: Cressey, R.F. (1981). Revision of Indo- West Pacific lizardfishes of the genus Synodus (Pisces: Synodontidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 342:1-53.
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 Synodus macrocephalus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5206268.