Modest filefish
Thamnaconus modestoides (Barnard, 1927)
Also calledBourse mingo (fra) · Cachúa Mingo (spa) · Kibirekawahagi (jpn) · Peix llima modest (cat) · Pez lija modesto (spa) · Porco modesto (por) · Скромный тамнакон (rus) · سمك السترة الجلدية الخجول (ara) · سمك المبرد الخجول (ara) · キビレカワハギ (jpn) · 剝皮魚 (zho) · 擬短角單棘魨 (zho) · 擬綠鰭馬面魨 (zho)
First described in: Barnard, Keppel H. 1927. Diagnoses of new genera and species of South African marine fishes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Including Zoology, Botany and Geology, Being a Continuation of the 'Magazine of Botany and Zoology', and of Louden and Charlesworth's 'Magazine of Natural History', Series 9 20: 66-79.
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 Thamnaconus modestoides in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2406681.