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Chilomycterus schoepfii (Walbaum, 1792) 
AphiaID: 159488

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Tetraodontiformes (Order) > Diodontidae (Family) > Chilomycterus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Chilomycterus Brisout de Barneville, 1846
Synonymised
taxa		  Chilomycterus schoepfi (Walbaum, 1792)
 Chilomycterus schoepgi (Walbaum, 1792) (misspelling)
 Cyclichthys schoepfi (Walbaum, 1792)
 Diodon rivulatus Cuvier, 1818
 Diodon schoepfii Walbaum, 1792
Sources  basis of record: Collette, B.B., and G. Klein-MacPhee (eds.). 2002. Bigelow and Schroeder's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine, 3rd edition. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London. 748 p. [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]

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 striped burrfish  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (18 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (25 nucleotides; 22 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Florida [details]

Habitat: nektonic [details]
Image 
Chilomycterus schoepfi
[image from synonym]
Chilomycterus schoepfi
added on 2008-11-07 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159488
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-05-30 07:43:33Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Chilomycterus schoepfii (Walbaum, 1792). 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=159488 on 2013-05-18
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