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Motella capensis

(cape rockling)

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Common Names

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Common Names in Afrikaans:

Kaapse klipling

Common Names in Danish:

Sydafrikansk havkvabbe

Common Names in English:

cape rockling

Common Names in Mandarin Chinese:

南非三须鳕, 南非三鬚鱈

Taxonomy

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Domain: Eukaryota () - Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia () - C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
  - Subkingdom: Bilateria () - (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
    - Branch: Deuterostomia () - Grobben, 1908
      - Infrakingdom: Chordonia () - (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
        Phylum: Chordata () - Bateson, 1885 - Chordates
        Subphylum: Vertebrata () - Cuvier, 1812 - Vertebrates
        Infraphylum: Gnathostomata () - auct. - Jawed Vertebrates
        Superclass: Osteichthyes () - Huxley, 1880
        Class: Actinopterygii () - Huxley, 1880
        Subclass: Actinopterygii ()
        Infraclass: Actinopteri ()
        Cohort: Clupeocephala ()
        Superorder: Paracanthopterygii ()
        Order: Gadiformes ()
        Suborder: Gadoidei () -
        Family: Lotidae ()
        Genus: Motella ()
        Specific name: capensis
        Scientific name: - Motella capensis

Synonyms

Gaidropsarus capensis (Kaup, 1858)

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Motella

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 8 species and subspecies in this genus:

M. argentata (Arctic Threebearded Rockling) · M. capensis (Cape Rockling) · M. ensis (Arctique Threebeard Rockling) · M. maculata (Three-Bearded Rockling) · M. mediterranea (Mediterranean Three-Barbeled Rockling) · M. motella (Mediterranean Three-Barbeled Rockling) · M. mustela (New Zealand Ling) · M. septentrionalis (Northern Rockling)

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Further Reading

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Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum / by Albert Gu?nther. .. [Tokyo?]: Kagaku Kisho Hakkokai, Sho?wa 13 [1938]. url p. 366.
Catalogue of the fishes in the. .. Museum / by A. Günther 1862. url p. 366.
Gadiformes (Treskoobraznye). Translated from Russian [by Walter J. Walters with Vladimir Walters] Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 1962. url p. 88.
Marine investigations in South Africa / Cape of Good Hope Dept. of Agriculture. Cape Town: W.A. Richards & Sons, [1900?- url p. 143, p. 143.
Reptiles, amphibia, fishes and lower chordata, by Richard Lydekker, J. T. Cunningham, G. A. Boulenger, and J. A. Thomson. With four plates in colour, thirty-three in monotone, a map and many text figures. London: Methuen, [1912] url p. 277.

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Identifiers

Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 161829
Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 4003795

Last Revised: 2012-07-28