WoRMS taxon details
Myctophum punctatum Rafinesque, 1810
AphiaID: 126627
AphiaID: 126627
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Myctophiformes (Order) > Myctophidae (Family) > Myctophum (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Myctophum Rafinesque, 1810 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Myctophum Rafinesque, 1810 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Gasteropelecus humboldti (Risso, 1810) Mychtophum punctatum Rafinesque, 1810 (misspelling) Myctophum humboldti (Risso, 1810) Scopelus caninianus Valenciennes, 1850 Scopelus heideri Steindachner, 1881 Scopelus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1810) Serpe humboldti Risso, 1810 Stylophthalmus lobiancoi Mazzarelli, 1909 Symbolophorus humboldti (Risso, 1810) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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: Eschmeyer, W.: Catalog of fishes; California Academy of Sciences, department Ichtyology., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details] additional source: Rafinesque, C.S. (1810). Indice d'ittiologia siciliana; Indice d'ittiologia siciliana; ossia, catalogo metodico dei nomi latini, italiani, e siciliani dei pesci, che si rinvengono in Sicilia disposti secondo un metodo naturale e seguito da un appendice che contiene la descrizione de alcuni nuovi pesci sicilian. Messina. Pp 1-70, Pls. 1-2. page(s): 35 [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: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] from synonym: BIOCEAN, available online at http://www.ifremer.fr/biocean/ [details] [view taxon] from synonym: MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp. [details] [view taxon] 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] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin [details] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] North West Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Sarcotretes scopeli Jungersen, 1911 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Peroderma bellotti Richiardi, 1882 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (18 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (48 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 21 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: Feeds on copepods, euphausiids, zoea stages of Brachyura and fish fry [details] Distribution: Western Atlantic: Greenland to USA [details] Habitat: High-oceanic, mesopelagic, nyctoepipelagic at the surface and down to 125 m and found between 225-750 m during the day. [details] Habitat: nektonic [details] Habitat: Epipelagic [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126627 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Myctophum punctatum Rafinesque, 1810. 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=126627 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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