WoRMS taxon details
Hoplostethus atlanticus Collett, 1889
AphiaID: 126402
AphiaID: 126402
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Beryciformes (Order) > Trachichthyidae (Family) > Hoplostethus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Hoplostethus Cuvier, 1829 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Hoplostethus gilchristi Smith, 1935 Hoplostethus islandicum Kotthaus, 1952 Hoplostethus islandicus Kotthaus, 1952 Hoplosthethus atlanticus Collett, 1889 (misspelling) Leiognaster atlanticus spinulosus Roule, 1916 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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: Kulka, D.W., D.E. Themelis and R.G. Halliday. 2001. Distribution and biology of orange roughy (Hoplotethus atlanticus, Collett, 1889) in the northwest Atlantic. NAFO SCR Doc. 01/84. 23 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: 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: 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] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] South Africa (country) [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life (46 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FAO Species fact sheets To FishBase To GenBank (226 nucleotides; 186 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: Feeds on prawns, mysids, amphipods, euphausiids and fishes including cardinalfish and lanternfish [details] Distribution: from the Davis Strait west of the Southern tip of Greenland to the Labrador shelf and north east Newfoundland shelf and the Grand Banks [details] Habitat: Inhabits deep, cold waters over steep continental slopes, ocean ridges and sea-mounts. Appears to be dispersed over both rough bottoms and steep, rough grounds where it feeds on crustaceans and fish. [details] Habitat: nektonic [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] Importance: Social- Highly Commercial fishery [details] Reproduction: Forms dense spawning aggregations, external fertilization; pelagic eggs [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126402 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Hoplostethus atlanticus Collett, 1889. 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=126402 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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