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Halieutichthys aculeatus (Mitchill, 1818) 
AphiaID: 159190

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Lophiiformes (Order) > Ogcocephalidae (Family) > Halieutichthys (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Halieutichthys Poey, 1863
Synonymised
taxa
  Halieutella lappa Goode & Bean, 1884
Halieutichthys reticulatus Poey, 1863
Halieuticthis aculeatus (Mitchill, 1818) (misspelling)
Lophius aculeatus Mitchill, 1818
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]

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
 
Language   Name 
English pancake batfish  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (8 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 9 proteins)
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Western Atlantic: Bahamas, North Carolina (USA) and northern Gulf of Mexico to northern South America [details]

Habitat: benthic [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159190
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-27 07:39:43Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Halieutichthys aculeatus (Mitchill, 1818). 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=159190 on 2013-05-23
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