WoRMS taxon details
Lagocephalus laevigatus (Linnaeus, 1766)
AphiaID: 158933
AphiaID: 158933
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Tetraodontiformes (Order) > Tetraodontidae (Family) > Lagocephalus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Lagocephalus Swainson, 1839 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Holocanthus melanothos Gronow, 1854 Lagocephalus pachycephalus Jordan & Rutter, 1897 Tetraodon laevigatus (Linnaeus, 1766) Tetrodon laevigatus Linnaeus, 1766 Tetrodon lineolatus Poey, 1868 | ||||||||||
| 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] from synonym: 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] [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] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Environment | marine, brackish, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Taeniacanthus carchariae Sumpf, 1871 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Taeniacanthus lagocephali Pearse, 1952 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Bomolochus monodi (Brian, 1924) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (15 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (61 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (25 nucleotides; 39 proteins) To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Western Atlantic: New England, USA and Bermuda to Argentina [details] Habitat: nektonic [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158933 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Lagocephalus laevigatus. 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=158933 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||
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