WoRMS taxon details
Alepisaurus ferox Lowe, 1833
AphiaID: 126333
AphiaID: 126333
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Aulopiformes (Order) > Alepisauridae (Family) > Alepisaurus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Alepisaurus Lowe, 1833 | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Alepisaurus Lowe, 1833 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Alepidosaurus aesculapius Bean, 1883 Alepidosaurus borealis Gill, 1862 Alepidosaurus poeyi Gill, 1863 Alepidosaurus serra Gill, 1862 Alepisaurus altivelis Poey, 1860 Alepisaurus azureus Valenciennes, 1850 Alepisaurus borealis Gill, 1862 Alepisaurus richardsonii Bleeker, 1855 Plagyodus aesculapius (Bean, 1883) Plagyodus borealis (Gill, 1862) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Anon. (2000). FishBase 2000 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. 4 cd-roms pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Scott, W.B. and M.G. Scott. 1988. Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No. 219. 731 p. [details] additional source: Welshman, D., S. Kohler, J. Black and L. Van Guelpen. 2003. An atlas of distributions of Canadian Atlantic fishes. , available online at http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/FishAtlas/default.htm [details] additional source: Wheeler, A. (1992). A list of the common and scientific names of fishes of the British Isles. J. Fish Biol. 41(Suppl. A): 1-37 (look up in IMIS) page(s): 104 [details] additional source: Lowe, R.T. 1833 (10 Oct.). Description of Alepisaurus, a new genus of fishes. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1833 (pt 1): 104. page(s): 104 [details] additional source: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details] additional source: Roberts, C.; Stewart, A.; Francis, M. (2009). Marine fishes (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: McEachran, J. D. 2009. Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] British Columbia [details] Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part] [details] Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] FAO fishing area 67 [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North East Pacific [details] North Pacific [details] North West Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Reunion [details] South Africa (country) [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Western Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (13 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (96 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (27 nucleotides; 23 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: Fishes, cephalopods, tunicates and crustaceans [details] Distribution: Greenland southward to the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico; Georges and LaHave Banks [details] Habitat: Epi- and mesopelagic, from near the surface to below 1,000 m, sometimes approaching inshore waters. [details] Habitat: nektonic [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] Predators: Opah, sharks, albacore, yellowfin tuna and fur seals.Cannibalistic. [details] Reproduction: External fertilization; oviparous; planktonic larvae [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126333 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Alepisaurus ferox Lowe, 1833. In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126333 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||
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