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Ceratias holboelli Krøyer, 1845 
AphiaID: 126537

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Lophiiformes (Order) > Ceratiidae (Family) > Ceratias (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Ceratias Krøyer, 1845
Synonymised
taxa
  Reganula giganteus (Bigelow & Barbour, 1944)
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: Collette, B.B., and G. Klein-MacPhee (eds.). 2002. Bigelow and Schroeder's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine, 3rd edition. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London. 748 p. [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: 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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English deepsea angler  [details]
English deep-sea angler  [details]
English twoclub angler  [details]
French pêcheur à deux massettes  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål holbølls sjødjevel  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk holbøll sjødjevel  [details]
Direct child
taxa

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Subspecies Ceratias holboelli tentaculatus (Norman, 1930) accepted as Ceratias tentaculatus (Norman, 1930)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [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]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (8 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 11 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Greenland, off the Grand Bank southward to Bermuda, the Caribbean, and northern South America [details]

Habitat: Occasionally found in Canadian Atlantic waters. Found to depths of 400 m, males attach themselves permanently to females.  [details]

Habitat: nektonic [details]

Reproduction: Spawns June to August, oviparous, eggs contained in floating gelatinous rafts, planktonic larvae  [details]
Images 
Ceratias holboelli - twoclub angler (pair of females)
Ceratias holboelli - twoclub angler (pair of females)
added on 2011-02-14 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Claude Nozères ()
qualitystatus: not checked

Ceratias holboelli and Cryptopsaras couesii (deepsea anglers)
Ceratias holboelli and Cryptopsaras couesii (deepsea anglers)
added on 2011-02-14 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Claude Nozères ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126537
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
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Ceratias holboelli Krøyer, 1845. 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=126537 on 2013-05-20
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