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Barbourisia rufa Parr, 1945 
AphiaID: 159425

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Cetomimiformes (Order) > Barbourisiidae (Family) > Barbourisia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Barbourisia Parr, 1945
Parent Barbourisia Parr, 1945
Sources  basis of record: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

basis of record: Scott, W.B. and M.G. Scott. 1988. Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No. 219. 731 p. [details]

basis of record: Welshman, D., S. Kohler, J. Black and L. Van Guelpen. 2003. An atlas of distributions of Canadian Atlantic fishes. , available online at http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/FishAtlas/default.htm [details]

basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: Roberts, C.; Stewart, A.; Francis, M. (2009). Marine fishes (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [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]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English velvet whalefish  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Madagascar [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (23 nucleotides; 40 proteins)
To ITIS
Notes  Description: Juveniles mesopelagic, adults benthopelagic. Presumably feeds on crustaceans. A rare deepsea fish. [details]

Diet: Feeds on crustaceans [details]

Distribution: Western Atlantic: Labrador Shelf to Gulf of Mexico [details]

Habitat: juveniles mesopelagic, adults benthopelagic [details]

Habitat: nektonic [details]

Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159425
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-27 07:39:43Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Barbourisia rufa Parr, 1945. 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=159425 on 2013-05-23
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