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Hemitripterus americanus (Gmelin, 1789)

To FishBase images (<i>Hemitripterus americanus</i>, Canada, by Román Marcote, E./Garazo Fabregat, A.)
To FishBase images (Hemitripterus americanus, Canada, by Román Marcote, E./Garazo Fabregat, A.)

159518  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159518)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Chordata (Phylum)
  4. Vertebrata (Subphylum)
  5. Gnathostomata (Infraphylum)
  6. Osteichthyes (Parvphylum)
  7. Actinopterygii (Gigaclass)
  8. Actinopteri (Superclass)
  9. Teleostei (Class)
  10. Perciformes (Order)
  11. Cottoidei (Suborder)
  12. Hemitripteridae (Family)
  13. Hemitripterus (Genus)
  14. Hemitripterus americanus (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Scorpaena americana Gmelin, 1789) Gmelin, J. F. (1789). Caroli a Linné ... Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species; cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decimo tertia, aucta, reformata. 3 vols. in 9 parts. Lipsiae,.</em> 1788-93. v. 1 (pt 3): 1033-1516 [Fishes on pp. 1126-1516].
page(s): 1220 [details] 
Distribution Labrador to Chesapeake Bay  
Distribution Labrador to Chesapeake Bay [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Hemitripterus americanus (Gmelin, 1789). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159518 on 2025-07-15
Date
action
by
2005-05-30 09:27:08Z
created
Cuvelier, Daphne
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
changed
Bailly, Nicolas
2008-02-28 13:41:07Z
changed
Bailly, Nicolas

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Nomenclature

original description (of Cottus acadian Walbaum, 1792) Walbaum, J. J. (1792). Petri Artedi sueci genera piscium. In quibus systema totum ichthyologiae proponitur cum classibus, ordinibus, generum characteribus, specierum differentiis, observationibus plurimis. Redactis speciebus 242 ad genera 52. Ichthyologiae pars III. <em>Ant. Ferdin. Rose, Grypeswaldiae [Greifswald].</em> Part 3: [i-viii] + 1-723, Pls. 1-3.
page(s): 392 [details] 

original description (of Cottus hispidus Bloch & Schneider, 1801) Bloch, M.E.; Schneider, J.G. (1801). M.E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. <em>Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. Berolini. Sumtibus Auctoris Impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano Commissum.</em> Pp i-lx + 1-584, Pls. 1-110., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/5750#/summary
page(s): 63, Pl. 13 [details] 

original description (of Scorpaena americana Gmelin, 1789) Gmelin, J. F. (1789). Caroli a Linné ... Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species; cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decimo tertia, aucta, reformata. 3 vols. in 9 parts. Lipsiae,.</em> 1788-93. v. 1 (pt 3): 1033-1516 [Fishes on pp. 1126-1516].
page(s): 1220 [details] 

original description (of Scorpaena americana Lacepède, 1801) Lacepède, B.G.E. (1801). Histoire naturelle des poissons. 3: i-lxvi + 1-558, Pls. 1-34.
page(s): 259, 284 [details] 

original description (of Cottus tripterygius Bloch & Schneider, 1801) Bloch, M.E.; Schneider, J.G. (1801). M.E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. <em>Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. Berolini. Sumtibus Auctoris Impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano Commissum.</em> Pp i-lx + 1-584, Pls. 1-110., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/5750#/summary
page(s): 63, Pl. 13 [details] 

original description (of Scorpaena flava Mitchill, 1815) Mitchill, S. L. (1815). The fishes of New-York, described and arranged. <em>Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York.</em> v. 1 (art. 5) (for 1814): 355-492, Pls. 1-6.
page(s): 382, Pl. 2 (fig. 8) [details] 

original description (of Scorpaena purpurea Mitchill, 1818) Mitchill, S.L. (1818). Memoir on ichthyology. The fishes of New York... In a supplement to the Memoir. <em>Am. Monthly Mag. Crit. Rev.</em> 2: 241-248, 321-328.
page(s): 245 [details] 

original description (of Scorpaena rufa Mitchill, 1818) Mitchill, S.L. (1818). Memoir on ichthyology. The fishes of New York... In a supplement to the Memoir. <em>Am. Monthly Mag. Crit. Rev.</em> 2: 241-248, 321-328.
page(s): 245 [details] 

original description (of Hemitripterus americanus Cuvier, 1829) Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1829). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome quatrième. Livre quatrième. <em>Des acanthoptérygiens à joue cuirassée.</em> 4: i-xxvi + 2 pp. + 1-518, Pls. 72-99, 97 bis.
page(s): 268 [details] 

basis of record Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. <em>Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> No. 219. 731 pp. [details] 

Ecology

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] OpenAccess publication

Other

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] 

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Diet Feeds on crustaceans, mollusks, sea urchins, fishes and bottom invertebrates [details]

Distribution Labrador to Chesapeake Bay [details]

Habitat benthic [details]

Habitat Found on rocky or hard bottoms to depths of 180 m. [details]

Importance Bait [details]

Predators Bony fish [details]

Reproduction Spawning occurs between late fall and early winter; average number of eggs per female is 15, 000 [details]

Synonymy Regarded as a junior synonym of Hemitripterus americanus (Gmelin, 1789) [details]
    Definitions

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LanguageName 
English sea raven  [details]
French hémitriptère atlantique  [details]
To Barcode of Life (29 barcodes) 
To Barcode of Life (29 barcodes) (from synonym Hemitripterus americanus Cuvier, 1829)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Scorpaena americana Lacepède, 1801)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Scorpaena americana Gmelin, 1789)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (125 publications) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (125 publications) (from synonym Hemitripterus americanus Cuvier, 1829)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) (from synonym Cottus tripterygius Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) (from synonym Cottus hispidus Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Scorpaena purpurea Mitchill, 1818)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (39 publications) (from synonym Hemitripterus acadianus Storer, 1853)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Scorpaena flava Mitchill, 1815)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Cottus acadian Walbaum, 1792)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hemitripterus americanus) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hemitripterus americanus) (from synonym Hemitripterus americanus Cuvier, 1829)
To FishBase (from synonym Scorpaena purpurea Mitchill, 1818)
To FishBase (from synonym Scorpaena flava Mitchill, 1815)
To FishBase (from synonym Hemitripterus americanus Cuvier, 1829)
To FishBase (from synonym Scorpaena rufa Mitchill, 1818)
To FishBase (from synonym Hemitripterus acadianus Storer, 1853)
To FishBase 
To FishBase (from synonym Cottus acadian Walbaum, 1792)
To FishBase (from synonym Cottus hispidus Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
To FishBase (from synonym Cottus tripterygius Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
To FishBase (from synonym Scorpaena americana Gmelin, 1789)
To FishBase (from synonym Scorpaena americana Lacepède, 1801)
To FishBase images (Hemitripterus americanus, Canada, by Román Marcote, E./Garazo Fabregat, A.) 
To FishBase images (Hemitripterus americanus, Canada, by Román Marcote, E./Garazo Fabregat, A.) (from synonym Hemitripterus americanus Cuvier, 1829)
To FishSounds 
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) 
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Unreviewed
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