WoRMS taxon details
Bothus ocellatus (Agassiz, 1831)
AphiaID: 159275
AphiaID: 159275
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Pleuronectiformes (Order) > Bothidae (Family) > Bothus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Bothus Rafinesque, 1810 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Platophrys ocellatus (Agassiz, 1831) Rhombus bahianus Castelnau, 1855 Rhombus ocellatus Agassiz, 1831 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] basis of record: Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas. 2002. November, 2002. [details] 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: 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] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (29 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 17 proteins) To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: About one-third of the diet consists of fishes; the rest of its food is crustaceans: crabs, shrimps, amphipods, and mantis shrimps [details] Distribution: Western Atlantic: Bay of Fundy, New York, Bermuda, and northern Gulf of Mexico to southern Brazil [details] Habitat: Inhabits sandy areas with coral rubble or seagrasses, usually near patch reefs. [details] Habitat: benthic [details] Importance: Social- Minor commerical fishery [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159275 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Bothus ocellatus (Agassiz, 1831). 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=159275 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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