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Platybelone argalus (Lesueur, 1821) 
AphiaID: 126377

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Beloniformes (Order) > Belonidae (Family) > Platybelone (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Platybelone argalus argalus (Lesueur, 1821)
Rank Species
Parent Platybelone Fowler, 1919
Synonymised
taxa
  Platybelone aegulus
Sources  basis of record: Randall, J.E. (1992). Red Sea Reef Fishes. Immel Publishing. [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: Robins, C.R., G.C. Ray, J. Douglass and R. Freund. 1986. A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston. 354 p. [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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English keeltail needlefish  [details]
Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Subspecies Platybelone argalus annobonensis Collette & Parin, 1970
Subspecies Platybelone argalus argalus (Lesueur, 1821)
Subspecies Platybelone argalus lovii (Günther, 1866)
Subspecies Platybelone argalus platura (Rüppell, 1837)
Subspecies Platybelone argalus platyura (Bennett, 1832)
Subspecies Platybelone argalus pterura (Osburn & Nichols, 1916)
Subspecies Platybelone argalus trachura (Valenciennes, 1846)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Chagos [details]
Comores [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Mauritius [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Red Sea [details]
Reunion [details]
Seychelles [details]
Somalia [details]
Tanzania [details]
Host of  Bomolochus bellones Burmeister, 1833 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligodes laciniatus (Krøyer, 1863) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lernanthropus tylosuri Richiardi, 1880 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lernaeolophus sultanus (Milne Edwards, 1840) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Nothobomolochus gibber (Shiino, 1957) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Parabomolochus constrictus Cressey & Collette, 1970 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lernanthropus belones Krøyer, 1863 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Parabomolochus bellones (Burmeister, 1833) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (9 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Western Atlantic: North Carolina, USA to Brazil  [details]

Habitat: nektonic [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126377
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
2013-01-08 14:50:09Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Platybelone argalus (Lesueur, 1821). 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=126377 on 2013-05-21
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