WoRMS taxon details
Trachinotus blochii (Lacepède, 1801)
AphiaID: 151169
AphiaID: 151169
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Carangidae (Family) > Trachinotus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Trachinotus Lacepède, 1801 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Caesiomorus blochii Lacepède, 1801 Scomber falcatus Forsskål, 1775 (synonym) Trachinotus blochi (Lacepède, 1801) (misspelling) Trachinotus falcatus (Forsskål, 1775) Trachinotus fuscus Cuvier, 1832 Trachynotus blochi (Lacepède, 1801) (misspelling) Trachynotus falcatus (Forsskål, 1775) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Lacepède, B.G.E. (1801). Histoire naturelle des poissons. v. 3, pp i-lxvi + 1-558, Pls. 1-34. [details] 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: Eschmeyer, W.: Catalog of fishes; California Academy of Sciences, department Ichtyology., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [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] original description (from synonym): Forsskål, P. (1775) Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Prof. Haun. Post Mortem Auctoris Ed. Carsten Neibuhr. Adjuncta est Materia Medica Kahirina atque Tabula Maris Rubri Geographica. Hauniae, Pp 1-20 + i-xxxiv + 1-164, map. [details] [view taxon] additional source (from synonym): Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] [view taxon] additional source (from synonym): Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas. 2002. November, 2002. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Environment | marine, brackish, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Chagos [details] Comores [details] Djibouti [details] Eritrea [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] North West Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Rodriguez [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Caligus epidemicus Hewitt, 1971 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus indicus Pillai, 1961 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Caligus orientalis Gusev, 1951 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Caligus pagrosomi Yamaguti, 1939 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Caligus punctatus Shiino, 1955 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Lernanthropodes trachinoti Pillai, 1962 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Hermilius pyriventris Heller, 1865 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (23 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (34 nucleotides; 19 proteins) To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Juveniles inhabit sandy shorelines and shallow sandy or muddy bays near river mouths while adults move out in schools to clear seaward reefs. Found near coral and rock reefs (Ref. 5213). [details] Remark: Date Eschmeyer, pers. comm. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:151169 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Trachinotus blochii (Lacepède, 1801). 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=151169 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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