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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCookeolus japonicus (Cuvier, 1829) 
AphiaID: 127003

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorChordata (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVertebrata (Subphylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGnathostomata (Superclass) > Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorPisces (Superclass) > Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorActinopterygii (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPerciformes (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPriacanthidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCookeolus (Genus)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCookeolus Fowler, 1928
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCookeolus Fowler, 1928
Synonymised
names		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPriacanthus alticlarens Valenciennes, 1862
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPriacanthus japonicus Cuvier, 1829
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPriacanthus macropterus Valenciennes, 1831
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPriacanthus macropus Valenciennes, 1831
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPriacanthus supraarmatus Hilgendorf, 1879
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPriacanthus velabundus McCulloch, 1915
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]

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Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorlongfinned bullseyeUnreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorbulleye  [details]
Spanish Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorcatalufa aleta larga  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution 
From other sources
Federal Republic of Somalia
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorSomalia [details]
Mozambique
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMozambique [details]
North Atlantic Ocean
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorAzores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorEuropean waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorGulf of Maine [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorNorth West Atlantic [details]
Seychelles
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorSeychelles [details]
South Africa
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorSouth Africa (country) [details]
Host of  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorParashiinoa cookeola Izawa, 2009 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaligus cookeoli Ho & Lin, 2010 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Barcode of Life (12 barcodes) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo FishBase 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo GenBank (11 nucleotides; 7 proteins) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo PESI 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo ITIS
Notes 
From other sources
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorDescription Found on hard bottoms to a depth ofabout 400 m and reported to be moderately common at depths of 165 to 260 m in association with rocky holes and ledges. Juveniles are pelagic (Refs. 9335; 9563). Reported to feed on pelagic crabs. Probably spawns in the Caribbean from May to September. [details]

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorDiet Feeds on pelagic crustaceans  [details]

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorDistribution Western Atlantic: New Jersey, North Carolina, USA to probably Argentina; southern Caribbean and southern Brazil  [details]

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorHabitat Found on hard bottoms to a depth of about 400 m and reported to be moderately common at depths of 165 to 260 m in association with rocky holes and ledges. [details]

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorHabitat nektonic [details]

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorHabitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorImportance Social- Commercial fishery [details]

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorReproduction Probably spawns in the Caribbean from May to September. [details]
Images Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editor[show unreviewed]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127003
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. (2014). Cookeolus japonicus (Cuvier, 1829). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2014) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=127003 on 2014-04-24
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