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Opisthonema oglinum (Lesueur, 1818) 
AphiaID: 158695

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Clupeiformes (Order) > Clupeidae (Family) > Opisthonema (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Opisthonema Gill, 1861
Synonymised
taxa
  Alausa striata Valenciennes, 1847
Chatoessus eumorphus Gosse, 1851
Chatoessus signifer DeKay, 1842
Megalops notata Lesueur, 1818
Megalops oglina Lesueur, 1818
Meletta thrissa Valenciennes, 1847
Ophisthonema oglinum (Lesueur, 1818) (misspelling)
Ophistonema oglinum (Lesueur, 1818) (misspelling)
Opisthonema captivai Rivas, 1972
Opisthonema oglunum (Lesueur, 1818) (misspelling)
Sources  basis of record: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

basis of record: MacCoy, C.V. 1931. Fishes. Bulletin of the Boston Society of Natural History 6: 1-21. [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]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Host of  Neobomolochus elongatus Cressey, 1981 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (20 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (88 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (24 nucleotides; 19 proteins)
To ITIS
Note  Distribution: Western Atlantic: from Gulf of Maine (USA), Bermuda, throughout the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean and West Indies southward to Santa Caterina, Brazil [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158695
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-26 07:43:32Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Opisthonema oglinum (Lesueur, 1818). 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=158695 on 2013-06-19
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