WoRMS taxon details
Hemiramphus brasiliensis (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 159279
AphiaID: 159279
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Beloniformes (Order) > Hemiramphidae (Family) > Hemiramphus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Hemiramphus Cuvier, 1816 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Esox brasiliensis Linnaeus, 1758 Hemiramphus brownii Valenciennes, 1847 Hemirhamphus filamentosus Poey, 1860 Macrognathus brevirostris Gronow, 1854 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [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] original description (from synonym): Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [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, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Lernanthropodes cucullus Bere, 1936 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (47 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 17 proteins) To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: Feeds mainly on sea grasses and small fishes [details] Distribution: Western Atlantic: Massachusetts, USA and northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil, including the Caribbean Sea; absent in Bermuda [details] Habitat: nektonic [details] Habitat: An inshore, surface-dwelling species forming sizeable schools. [details] Importance: Bait [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159279 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Hemiramphus brasiliensis (Linnaeus, 1758). 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=159279 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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