WoRMS taxon details
Aluterus monoceros (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 127407
AphiaID: 127407
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Tetraodontiformes (Order) > Monacanthidae (Family) > Aluterus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Aluterus Cloquet, 1816 | ||||||||||
| Parent | Aluterus Cloquet, 1816 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Aluetera monocerus (Linnaeus, 1758) (misspelling) Alutarius amphacanthoides Bleeker, 1851 (misspelling) Alutarius macracanthus Bleeker, 1851 (misspelling) Alutera cinerea Temminck & Schlegel, 1850 Alutera guntheriana Poey, 1863 Alutera monocera (Linnaeus, 1758) Alutera monoceros (Linnaeus, 1758) (misspelling) Aluteres berardi Lesson, 1831 Aluterus anginosus Hollard, 1855 Balistes monoceros Linnaeus, 1758 Balistes serraticornis Fréminville, 1813 Monacanthus anginosus Hollard, 1853 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [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] additional source: Robins, C.R., G.C. Ray, J. Douglass and R. Freund. 1986. A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston. 354 p. [details] additional source: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [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] original description (from synonym): 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] [view taxon] 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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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Azores [details] Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Mozambique [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North Pacific [details] North West Atlantic [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Caligus polycanthi Gnanamuthu, 1950 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Barcode of Life (22 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 5 proteins) To PESI To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Inhabits reefs (Ref. 9318). Occasionally in shallow waters by steep drop-offs. Usually observed either singly or in pairs, occasionally in groups of five or six, at less than 10 m depth. Juveniles are pelagic, seen under floating objects (Ref. 9318). [details] Distribution: Western Atlantic: Massachusetts, USA to Argentina [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127407 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Aluterus monoceros (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=127407 on 2013-06-18 | |||||||||||
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