WoRMS taxon details
Auxis thazard (Lacepède, 1800)
AphiaID: 127016
AphiaID: 127016
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Scombridae (Family) > Scombrinae (Subfamily) > Auxis (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Auxis thazard thazard (Lacepède, 1800) | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Auxis Cuvier, 1829 | ||||||||||||||||
| 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] basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 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: 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] | ||||||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Auxis thazard brachydorax Collette & Aadland, 1996 Subspecies Auxis thazard thazard (Lacepède, 1800) | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Djibouti [details] Eritrea [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mozambique [details] Mtwapa [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North Pacific [details] North West Atlantic [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] Ungama Bay [details] Wimereux (not certain) [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Caligus auxisi Pillai, 1963 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Parabomolochus mycterobius Vervoort, 1965 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Unicolax mycterobius (Vervoort, 1965) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (38 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (116 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FAO Species fact sheets To FishBase To GenBank (430 nucleotides; 105 proteins) To IUCN Red List To PESI To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Authority: (Lacépède, 1803) [details] Description: This schooling species occurs at temperatures ranging from 27 to 27.9 °C. Epipelagic in both coastal and oceanic waters (Ref. 9340). Because of their abundance, they are considered an important element of the food web, particularly as forage for other species of commercial interest. It grows larger than @A. rochei@. Feeds on small fish, squids, planktonic crustaceans (megalops), and stomatopod larvae (Ref. 5213). Preyed upon by larger fishes, including other tunas (Ref. 9987). Also caught with troll lines. Marketed fresh and frozen (Ref. 9340), also utilized dried/salted, smoked and canned (Ref. 9987). [details] Distribution: Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127016 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Auxis thazard (Lacepède, 1800). 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=127016 on 2013-05-26 | |||||||||||||||||
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