WoRMS taxon details
Coryphaena hippurus Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 126846
AphiaID: 126846
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Coryphaenidae (Family) > Coryphaena (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Coryphaena Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Coryphaena Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Corypaena hippurua Linnaeus, 1758 (misspelling) Coryphaena argyrurus Valenciennes, 1833 Coryphaena chrysurus Lacepède, 1801 Coryphaena dolfyn Valenciennes, 1833 Coryphaena dorado Valenciennes, 1833 Coryphaena fasciolata Pallas, 1770 Coryphaena hipporus Linnaeus, 1758 (misspelling) Coryphaena hyppurus Linnaeus, 1758 (misspelling) Coryphaena immaculata Agassiz, 1831 Coryphaena imperialis Rafinesque, 1810 Coryphaena japonica Temminck & Schlegel, 1845 Coryphaena margravii Valenciennes, 1833 Coryphaena nortoniana Lowe, 1839 Coryphaena scomberoides Valenciennes, 1833 Coryphaena suerii Valenciennes, 1833 Coryphaena virgata Valenciennes, 1833 Coryphaena vlamingii Valenciennes, 1833 Lampugus siculus Valenciennes, 1833 Lepimphis hippuroides Rafinesque, 1810 Scomber pelagicus Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [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] basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [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: 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] additional source: Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas. 2002. November, 2002. [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] 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, brackish, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Azores [details] Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Chagos [details] Comores [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] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North Pacific [details] North West Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Reunion [details] Rodriguez [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Tanzania [details] Western Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Caligus coryphaenae Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Euryphorus brachypterus (Gerstaecker, 1853) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Pseudocycnus appendiculatus Heller, 1865 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Lernaeenicus longiventris Wilson C.B., 1917 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Brachiella coryphaenae Pearse, 1952 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Caligus balistae Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Caligus quadratus Shiino, 1954 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Charopinus quaternius Wilson C.B., 1935 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Caligus confusus Pillai, 1961 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Caligus pseudoproductus Capart, 1959 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Euryphorus coryphaenae Krøyer, 1863 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Euryphorus nordmannii Milne Edwards, 1840 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Euryphorus nympha Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Caligus productus Dana, 1852 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (90 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (210 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FAO Species fact sheets To FishBase To GenBank (141 nucleotides; 111 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Found in open waters but also near the coast (Ref. 9293). Forms schools. Inhabits surface waters where it feeds on almost all forms of fish and zooplankton. Also feeds on crustaceans and squids (Ref. 2850). Occurs within a temperature range of 21° to 30°C and salinities of 31.0 ppt (Ref. 26). Spawns in the open sea and probably approximate to the coast when the water temperature rises (Ref. 9293). Attracting devices such as floating bundles of bamboo reeds or cork planks are used to concentrate dolphinfish before the nets are set. Marketed fresh and is of high value (Ref. 9293); also utilized frozen (Ref. 9987). [details] Diet: Feeds on almost all forms of fish and zooplankton; also takes crustaceans and squid [details] Distribution: Atlantic, Indian and Pacific: in tropical and subtropical waters; highly migratory species comes as far north as 43.18°N [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] Habitat: Found in open waters but also near the coast. [details] Habitat: nektonic [details] Importance: Social- Commercial, gamefish fishery [details] Reproduction: Spawns in the open sea and probably approximate to the coast when water temperature rises [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126846 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Coryphaena hippurus Linnaeus, 1758. 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=126846 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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