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Stomias boa (Risso, 1810) 
AphiaID: 127374

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Stomiiformes (Order) > Stomiidae (Family) > Stomiinae (Subfamily) > Stomias (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Stomias boa boa (Risso, 1810)
Rank Species
Parent Stomias Cuvier, 1816
Synonymised
taxa
  Stomias elongatus atlanticus Pappenheim, 1912
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. (2000). FishBase 2000 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. 4 cd-roms 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: 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 
English boa dragonfish  [details]
French dragon-boa  [details]
Hebrew לועית ים-תיכונית  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Δρακόψαρο  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål storkjeft  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk storkjeft  [details]
Turkish kocaagiz baligi  [details]
Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Subspecies Stomias boa boa (Risso, 1810)
Subspecies Stomias boa colubrinus Garman, 1899
Subspecies Stomias boa ferox Reinhardt, 1842

Subspecies Stomias boa danae Ege, 1933 accepted as Stomias danae Ege, 1933
Subspecies Stomias boa gracilis Garman, 1899 accepted as Stomias gracilis Garman, 1899
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Davis Strait [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
FAO fishing area 18 [details]
FAO fishing area 21 [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Hudson Strait [details]
Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (28 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (130 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 12 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
Image 
Stomias boa
Stomias boa
added on 2011-03-28 - author: Themelis, Daphne ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127374
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
2013-01-08 14:50:09Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Stomias boa (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=127374 on 2013-05-24
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