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Agonostomus monticola (Bancroft, 1834) 
AphiaID: 159413

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Mugiliformes (Order) > Mugilidae (Family) > Agonostomus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Agonostomus Bennett, 1832
Synonymised
taxa
  Agonostoma microps Günther, 1861
Agonostoma nasutum Günther, 1861
Agonostoma percoides Günther, 1861
Agonostoma squamipinne Mohr, 1927
Agonostomus hancocki Seale, 1932
Agonostomus macracanthus Regan, 1907
Agonostomus microps Günther, 1861
Agonostomus monitcola (Bancroft, 1834) (misspelling)
Agonostomus salvini Regan, 1907
Dajaus elongatus Kner, 1863 (synonym)
Joturus daguae Eigenmann, 1918
Mugil irretitus Gosse, 1851 (synonym)
Mugil monticola Bancroft, 1834
Neomugil digueti Vaillant, 1894
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 mountain mullet  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Host of  Acusicola spinuloderma El-Rashidy & Boxshall, 1999 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Acusicola mazatlanesis El-Rashidy & Boxshall, 1999 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Ergasilus parabahiensis El-Rashidy & Boxshall, 1999 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (25 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (65 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (212 nucleotides; 146 proteins)
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: North America: from North Carolina, Florida, Louisiana and Texas in the USA to Colombia and Venezuela, including the West Indies.  [details]

Habitat: nektonic [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159413
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). Agonostomus monticola (Bancroft, 1834). 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=159413 on 2013-05-20
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