WoRMS taxon details
Sciaenops ocellatus (Linnaeus, 1766)
AphiaID: 159335
AphiaID: 159335
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Sciaenidae (Family) > Sciaenops (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Sciaenops Gill, 1863 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Lutjanus triangulum Lacepède, 1802 Perca ocellata Linnaeus, 1766 Sciaenops ocellata (Linnaeus, 1766) (misspelling) | |||||||||||||
| 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: Linnaeus, C. (1766). Systema naturae sive regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae. 12th ed. v. 1 (pt 1): 1-532. [details] [view taxon] 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, brackish, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (15 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (64 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FAO Cultured Aquatic species fact sheets To FishBase To GenBank (999 nucleotides; 115 proteins) To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Western Atlantic: Massachusetts in USA to northern Mexico, including southern Florida, USA [details] Habitat: benthic [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159335 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Sciaenops ocellatus (Linnaeus, 1766). 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=159335 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||||||||
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