WoRMS banner

WoRMS RSS feed RSS
Add search provider Add provider
Twitter: Latest updates @WRMarineSpecies

WoRMS taxon details

Amia calva Linnaeus, 1766 
AphiaID: 157877

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Amiiformes (Order) > Amiidae (Family) > Amia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Amia Linnaeus, 1766
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1766). Systema naturae sive regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae. 12th ed. v. 1 (pt 1): 1-532. [details]

basis of record: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English bowfin  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution North West Atlantic [details]
Host of  Lernaea cyprinacea Linnaeus, 1758 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes)
To GenBank (465 nucleotides; 151 proteins)
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157877
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-24 14:41:52Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2010-02-23 15:31:27Z  checked  Bailly, Nicolas
  
[Taxonomic tree] [Distribution map] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images]
  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Amia calva Linnaeus, 1766. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=157877 on 2013-05-21
  Creative Commons License The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License