WoRMS taxon details
Sillago sihama (Forsskål, 1775)
AphiaID: 127046
AphiaID: 127046
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Sillaginidae (Family) > Sillago (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Sillago | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Atherina sihama Forsskål, 1775 Platycephalus sihamus (Forsskål, 1775) Sciaena malabarica Bloch & Schneider, 1801 Sillago acuta Cuvier, 1816 Sillago erythraea Cuvier, 1829 Sillago ihama (Forsskål, 1775) (misspelling) Sillago malabarica (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) Sillago sehama (Forsskål, 1775) (misspelling) | |||||||||||||
| 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] additional source: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453 (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: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, brackish, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Comores [details] Djibouti [details] Eritrea [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gazi Bay [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] Ungama Bay [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Acanthochondria shawi Yü, 1935 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Colobomatus sillaginis West, 1983 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Lernanthropus sillaginis Pillai, 1963 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Lernanthropus villiersi Delamare Deboutteville & Nunes-Ruivo, 1954 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Nothobomolochus lateolabracis (Yamaguti & Yamasu, 1959) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Colobomatus asiaticus Hayward, 1996 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Colobomatus asiaticus Hayward, 1996 (parasitic: endoparasitic) Colobomatus fulloonae Hayward, 1996 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Colobomatus westi Hayward, 1996 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Unicolax quadrispinulus Lin & Ho, 2006 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Parabrachiella sihama Song & Chen, 1976 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||
| Links | Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE) To Barcode of Life (67 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (99 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (217 nucleotides; 90 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Occurs at a temperature range of 26.0-29.0 °C (Ref. 4959). Forms schools in estuaries and bays; common along beaches, sandbars, mangrove creeks and estuaries; but very rarely captured by prawn trawling vessels. Buries itself in the sand when danger approaches (Ref. 6205). Feeds mainly on consists of polychaete worms, small prawns (Penaeus), other crustacea, shrimps and amphipods (Ref. 6226 & 6227). Sexually mature at 13 to 14 cm length. Marketed fresh and frozen (Ref. 9987). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127046 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Sillago sihama (Forsskål, 1775). 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=127046 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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