WoRMS taxon details
Scarus coeruleus (Edwards, 1771)
AphiaID: 159300
AphiaID: 159300
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Scaridae (Family) > Scarinae (Subfamily) > Scarus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Scarus Forsskål, 1775 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Calliodon gibbosus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 Coryphaena coerulea Edwards, 1771 Coryphaena coerulea Bloch, 1786 Scarus coeruleus (Bloch, 1786) Scarus coerulus (Bloch, 1786) (misspelling) Scarus loro Bloch & Schneider, 1801 Scarus nuchalis Poey, 1860 Scarus obtusus Poey, 1860 Scarus trilobatus Lacepède, 1802 Sparus holocyaneos Lacepède, 1802 | |||||||||||||
| 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: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (24 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Western Atlantic: Maryland in the USA, Bermuda and Bahamas to Río de Janeiro, Brazil, including the West Indies; absent in the northern Gulf of Mexico [details] Habitat: benthic [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159300 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Scarus coeruleus (Edwards, 1771). 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=159300 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||||||||
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