WoRMS taxon details
Lophius americanus Valenciennes, 1837
AphiaID: 159184
AphiaID: 159184
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Lophiiformes (Order) > Lophiidae (Family) > Lophius (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Lophius Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||
| 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] 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 (23 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (73 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FAO Species fact sheets To FishBase To GenBank (69 nucleotides; 93 proteins) To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: Feeds on fishes including herring, sand lance, alewives, smelt and cod [details] Distribution: Northern Gulf of St. Lawrence to northern Florida [details] Habitat: benthic [details] Habitat: Found to depths of 100 m, inhabiting the continental shelf. [details] Importance: Social [details] Predators: Sandbar shark, tiger shark, blue shark and swordfish [details] Reproduction: Spawns from June until September in the Canadian waters, open water/ Substratum egg scatterers [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159184 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Lophius americanus Valenciennes, 1837. 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=159184 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||
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