WoRMS taxon details
Neoniphon sammara (Forsskål, 1775)
AphiaID: 159393
AphiaID: 159393
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Beryciformes (Order) > Holocentridae (Family) > Holocentrinae (Subfamily) > Neoniphon (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Neoniphon Castelnau, 1875 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Flammeo sammara (Forsskål, 1775) Holocentrum sammana (Forsskål, 1775) (misspelling) Holocentrum sammara (Forsskål, 1775) Holocentrus rubrofuscus Lacepède, 1802 Holocentrus sammara (Forsskål, 1775) Kutaflammeo sammara (Forsskål, 1775) Labrus angulosus Lacepède, 1801 Sciaena sammara Forsskål, 1775 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Smith, J.L.B. & M.M. Smith (1963). The fishes of Seychelles. Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University. Grahamstown. [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: Randall, J.E. (1992). Red Sea Reef Fishes. Immel Publishing. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
| ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Cargados Carajos [details] Chagos [details] Comores [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] North West Atlantic [details] Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Reunion [details] Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (40 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (93 nucleotides; 93 proteins) To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: This schooling species inhabits seagrass beds and hard-bottomed habitats from the reef flat to depths of 46 m or more on lagoon and seaward reefs. Feeds on small crabs and shrimps during the night. Venomous spine at the corner of its preopercle. Marketed fresh (Ref. 9948). [details] Diet: Feeds on small fishes [details] Distribution: Indo-Pacific: Red Sea and East Africa to the Marquesan and Ducie islands, north to southern Japan and the Ogasawara and Hawaiian islands, northern Australia and Lord Howe Island. Throughout Micronesia [details] Habitat: nektonic [details] Habitat: This schooling species inhabits seagrass beds and hard-bottomed habitats from the reef flat to depths of 46 m or more on lagoon and seaward reefs. Often found with branching Acropora coral. [details] Importance: Social- Commercial, fishery, aquarium, bait [details] | ||||||||||
| Image |
| ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159393 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
| ||||||||||
[Taxonomic tree] [Distribution map] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images] | |||||||||||
| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Neoniphon sammara (Forsskål, 1775). 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=159393 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||
 The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License |
