WoRMS taxon details
Scophthalmus aquosus (Mitchill, 1815)
AphiaID: 158907
AphiaID: 158907
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Pleuronectiformes (Order) > Scophthalmidae (Family) > Scophthalmus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Scophthalmus Rafinesque, 1810 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Lophopsetta maculata Pleuronectes aquosus Mitchill, 1815 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Scott, W.B. and M.G. Scott. 1988. Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No. 219. 731 p. [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] from synonym: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [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] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] North West Atlantic [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (18 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (34 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (24 nucleotides; 18 proteins) To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: Feeds on mysids, shrimps, tomcod, smelt, hake, pollock, striped sea bass and herring [details] Distribution: Gulf of St. Lawrence to northern Florida [details] Habitat: Found to depths of 45 m on sand bottoms. [details] Habitat: benthic [details] Importance: Social- Commercial [details] Predators: Atlantic cod, American angler, summer flounder, cobia, black sea bass, piked dogfish [details] Reproduction: Spawns in late spring and summer in the Gulf of Maine [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158907 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Scophthalmus aquosus (Mitchill, 1815). 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=158907 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||||||||
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