WoRMS taxon details
Acanthostracion polygonius Poey, 1876
AphiaID: 158919
AphiaID: 158919
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Tetraodontiformes (Order) > Ostraciidae (Family) > Acanthostracion (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Acanthostracion Bleeker, 1865 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Acanthostracion poligonos Poey, 1876 (misspelling) Acanthostracion polygonia Poey, 1876 (misspelling) Lactophrys polygonia (Poey, 1876) Lactophrys polygonius (Poey, 1876) (misspelling) Lactophrys saxatilis Mowbray, 1931 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] basis of record: 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, 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] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 11 proteins) To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Distribution: Western Atlantic: New Jersey, USA and Bermuda to Brazil, including the Caribbean and Antilles. Absent from the Gulf of Mexico. [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158919 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Acanthostracion polygonius Poey, 1876. 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=158919 on 2013-05-18 | |||||||||||
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