WoRMS taxon details
Urophycis chuss (Walbaum, 1792)
AphiaID: 126503
AphiaID: 126503
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Gadiformes (Order) > Phycidae (Family) > Urophycis (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Urophycis Gill, 1863 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Blennius chuss Walbaum, 1792 Enchelyopus americanus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 Gadus longipes Mitchill, 1814 Phycis americanus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) Phycis chuss (Walbaum, 1792) Phycis filamentosus Storer, 1858 Phycis marginatus Rafinesque, 1818 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
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: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [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 | European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] North West Atlantic [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (24 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (98 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (23 nucleotides; 19 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: Feeds on shrimps, amphipods, squids , herring, flatfish and mackerel [details] Distribution: Southern Nova Scotia (straying to Gulf of St. Lawrence) to North Carolina [details] Habitat: Migrate offshore in fall, move inshore for spring, found over soft, muddy and sandy bottoms. [details] Habitat: benthic [details] Importance: Scientific-Commercial, gamefish, fishmeal [details] Predators: Rock fish, monkfish, dogfish and white hake [details] Reproduction: Spawning occurs in summer to early fall [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126503 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Urophycis chuss (Walbaum, 1792). 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=126503 on 2013-05-26 | |||||||||||
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