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Cynoscion nebulosus (Cuvier, 1830) 
AphiaID: 159312

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Sciaenidae (Family) > Cynoscion (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Cynoscion Gill, 1861
Synonymised
taxa
  Otolithus carolinensis Valenciennes, 1833
Otolithus nebulosus Cuvier, 1830
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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English spotted weakfish  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Host of  Lernanthropus gisleri van Beneden, 1832 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus chelifer Wilson C.B., 1905 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus praetextus Bere, 1936 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (15 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (103 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (379 nucleotides; 16 proteins)
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Western Atlantic: New York to southern Florida in USA and the entire Gulf of Mexico.  [details]

Habitat: benthic [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159312
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-27 09:47:05Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Cynoscion nebulosus (Cuvier, 1830). 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=159312 on 2013-05-24
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