WoRMS taxon details
Diodon holocanthus Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 127402
AphiaID: 127402
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Tetraodontiformes (Order) > Diodontidae (Family) > Diodon (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Diodon Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Atopomycterus bocagei Steindachner, 1866 Diodon holacanthus Linnaeus, 1758 (misspelling) Diodon hystrix holocanthus Linnaeus, 1758 Diodon maculifer Kaup, 1855 Diodon multimaculatus Cuvier, 1818 Diodon novemaculatus Cuvier, 1818 (misspelling) Diodon novemmaculatus Cuvier, 1818 Diodon paraholocanthus Kotthaus, 1979 Diodon pilosus Mitchill, 1815 Diodon quadrimaculatus Cuvier, 1818 Diodon sexmaculatus Cuvier, 1818 Paradiodon quadrimaculatus (Cuvier, 1818) Trichodiodon pilosus (Mitchill, 1815) | ||||||||||
| 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: 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: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] from synonym: MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Kenya [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] North West Atlantic [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (44 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (32 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (210 nucleotides; 184 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Inhabits shallow reefs to open, soft bottoms to at least 100 m . Also in areas with rocky substrata. Sometimes forms groups (Ref. 9710). Juveniles pelagic to about 6-9 cm. Solitary. Feeds on molluscs, sea urchins, hermit crabs and crabs at night (Ref. 9680). A relatively poor swimmer (Ref. 9710). [details] Diet: Feeds on mollusks, sea urchins, hermit crabs, and crabs at night [details] Distribution: circumtropical in distribution; Western Atlantic: Near Georges Bank to Brazil [details] Habitat: Inhabits shallow reefs to open, soft bottoms. Also in areas with rocky substrata. Sometimes forms groups. [details] Habitat: benthic [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] Importance: Scientific- used in Chinese medicine [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127402 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Diodon holocanthus 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=127402 on 2013-05-19 | |||||||||||
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