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Seriola dumerili (Risso, 1810) 
AphiaID: 126816

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Carangidae (Family) > Seriola (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Seriola Cuvier, 1816
Parent Seriola Cuvier, 1816
Synonymised
taxa
  Caranx dumerili Risso, 1810
Regificola parilis Whitley, 1948
Seriola boscii Valenciennes, 1833
Seriola dumerilii (Risso, 1810) (misspelling)
Seriola gigas Poey, 1860
Seriola purpurascens Temminck & Schlegel, 1845
Seriola purpurescens Temminck & Schlegel, 1845 (misspelling)
Seriola rhombica Smith, 1959
Seriola simplex Ramsay & Ogilby, 1886
Seriola tapeinometapon Bleeker, 1853 (misspelling)
Seriola tapeinometopon Bleeker, 1853
Trachurus aliciolus Rafinesque, 1810
Trachurus fasciatus Rafinesque, 1810
Sources  basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom 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: 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: Risso, A. (1810). Ichthyologie de Nice, ou histoire naturelle des poissons du département des Alpes Maritimes. F. Schoell, Paris. Pp i-xxxvi + 1-388, Pls. 1-11.
page(s): 175 [details]


additional source: Wheeler, A. (1992). A list of the common and scientific names of fishes of the British Isles. J. Fish Biol. 41(Suppl. A): 1-37 (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 175 [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: 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 
Albanian gofa  [details]
Dutch barnsteenmakreel  [details]
Dutch grote geelstaart  [details]
English amberjack  [details]
English greater amberjack  [details]
English greater yellowtail  [details]
French sériole couronnée  [details]
Hebrew סריול אטלנטי  [details]
Italian leccia  [details]
Italian seriola di Dumeril  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Μαγιάτικο  [details]
Norwegian seriola  [details]
Portuguese írio  [details]
Spanish pez de limón  [details]
Swedish bårnstensfisk  [details]
Swedish seriola  [details]
Turkish sari kuyruk  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Azores [details]
Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Djibouti [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin [details]
Mozambique [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]
Host of  Colobomatus lichiae (Richiardi, 1880) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Neobrachiella elegans (Richiardi, 1880) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lernanthropus micropterygis Richiardi, 1884 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus confusus Pillai, 1961 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Eobrachiella elegans (Richiardi, 1880) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Nesippus costatus Wilson C.B., 1924 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (36 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (63 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (158 nucleotides; 135 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Description: Inhabits deep seaward reefs occasionally entering coastal bays. Feeds primarily on fishes such as the bigeye scad, also feeds on invertebrates (Ref. 4233). Small juveniles associate with floating plants or debris in oceanic and offshore waters. Juveniles form small schools or solitary (Ref. 5213). Distribution in eastern central Atlantic along the African coast is not well established due to past confusion with @S. carpenteri@ (Ref. 7097). The species is rarely exotic (Ref. 637). Flesh is edible (Ref. 5521). Utilized fresh and frozen; eaten pan-fried, broiled and baked (Ref. 9987). [details]

Diet: Feeds primarily on fishes such as the bigeye scad, also feeds on invertebrates [details]

Distribution: Western Atlantic: Bermuda, Nova Scotia, Canada to Brazil; also from the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea [details]

Habitat: Inhabits deep seaward reefs; occasionally entering coastal bays. [details]

Habitat: nektonic [details]

Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]

Importance: Social- Minor Commercial, fishery, aquaculture and aquarium fish [details]
Images 
Seriola dumerili
Seriola dumerili
added on 2008-12-16 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
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Seriola dumerili - Greater amberjack
Seriola dumerili - Greater amberjack
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Seriola dumerili
Seriola dumerili
added on 2012-10-15 - author: Pillon, Roberto ()
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Seriola dumerili
Seriola dumerili
added on 2012-10-15 - author: Pillon, Roberto ()
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Seriola dumerili
Seriola dumerili
added on 2012-10-15 - author: Pillon, Roberto ()
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Seriola dumerili
Seriola dumerili
added on 2012-10-15 - author: Pillon, Roberto ()
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Seriola dumerili
Seriola dumerili
added on 2012-10-15 - author: Pillon, Roberto ()
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126816
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). Seriola dumerili (Risso, 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=126816 on 2013-06-20
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