WoRMS taxon details

Zoarces americanus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)

159267  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159267)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Blennius americanus Bloch & Schneider, 1801) Bloch, M.E.; Schneider, J.G. (1801). M.E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. <em>Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. Berolini. Sumtibus Auctoris Impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano Commissum.</em> Pp i-lx + 1-584, Pls. 1-110., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/5750#/summary
page(s): 171 [details]   
Distribution Battle Harbour, Labrador, the Gulf of St Lawrence, off Newfoundland and along the coasts of the Maritime provinces, common...  
Distribution Battle Harbour, Labrador, the Gulf of St Lawrence, off Newfoundland and along the coasts of the Maritime provinces, common off Nova Scotia and the offshore banks to New Jersey; also common in the Bay of Fundy, including Passamaquoddy Bay and Minas Basin; southward to Delaware, possibly straying to off North Carolina [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Zoarces americanus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159267 on 2024-03-19
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2005-05-27 09:47:05Z
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2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
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original description  (of Blennius americanus Bloch & Schneider, 1801) Bloch, M.E.; Schneider, J.G. (1801). M.E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. <em>Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. Berolini. Sumtibus Auctoris Impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano Commissum.</em> Pp i-lx + 1-584, Pls. 1-110., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/5750#/summary
page(s): 171 [details]   

original description  (of Blennius anguillaris Peck, 1804) Peck, W. D. (1804). Description of four remarkable fishes, taken near the Piscataqua in New Hampshire. <em>Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> v. 2 (pt. 2) (art. 1): 46-57, Pl. 2.
page(s): 55, Pl. 2 (fig. 3) [details]   

original description  (of Blennius ciliatus Mitchill, 1814) Mitchill, S. L. (1814). Report, in part, of Samuel L. Mitchill, M. D., Professor of Natural History, &c, on the fishes of New-York. <em>D. Carlisle, New York.</em> 1-28.
page(s): 6 [details]   

original description  (of Blennius labrosus Mitchill, 1815) Mitchill, S. L. (1815). The fishes of New-York, described and arranged. <em>Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York.</em> v. 1 (art. 5) (for 1814): 355-492, Pls. 1-6.
page(s): 375, Pl. 1 (fig. 7) [details]   

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]   

basis of record Collette, B. B., ; Klein-MacPhee, G. (2002). Bigelow and Schroeder's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine. <em>Smithsonian Institution Press.</em> 1-748. [details]   

additional source Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. <em>Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> No. 219. 731 pp. [details]   

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2023). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2023)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]   

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Diet Feeds on a wide variety of fishes and invertebrates [details]

Distribution Battle Harbour, Labrador, the Gulf of St Lawrence, off Newfoundland and along the coasts of the Maritime provinces, common off Nova Scotia and the offshore banks to New Jersey; also common in the Bay of Fundy, including Passamaquoddy Bay and Minas Basin; southward to Delaware, possibly straying to off North Carolina [details]

Habitat Occupies a variety of depths from the intertidal zone to over 183m. [details]

Habitat benthic [details]

Importance Social- Commercial [details]

Predators Sandbar shark, Atlantic cod, shortfin mako, sea bass [details]

Reproduction Internal fertilization; spawns in nests in crevices and holes under boulders in late August in Newfoundland waters; eggs are guarded by parents; off southern New England in late September and October [details]
LanguageName 
English ocean pout  [details]
French loquette d'Amériqueloquette d’Amérique  [details]