WoRMS taxon details
Acanthostracion quadricornis (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 158920
AphiaID: 158920
| 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 tricornis (Linnaeus, 1758) Lactophrys quadricornis (Linnaeus, 1758) Lactophrys tricornis (Linnaeus, 1758) Ostracion quadricornis Linnaeus, 1758 Ostracion tricornis Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||
| 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] basis of record: Anon. (2000). FishBase 2000 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. 4 cd-roms pp. (look up in IMIS) [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] from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] South Africa (country) [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (54 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (28 nucleotides; 26 proteins) To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Distribution: Western Atlantic: Massachusetts (USA), Bermuda, and northern Gulf of Mexico to southeastern Brazil [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158920 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Acanthostracion quadricornis (Linnaeus, 1758). 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=158920 on 2013-05-20 | |||||||||||
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