WoRMS taxon details
Aluterus schoepfii (Walbaum, 1792)
AphiaID: 159490
AphiaID: 159490
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Tetraodontiformes (Order) > Monacanthidae (Family) > Aluterus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Aluterus Cloquet, 1816 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Alutera aurantiacus (Mitchill, 1815) Alutera punctata Agassiz, 1831 Alutera schoepfii (Walbaum, 1792) Aluteres cuspicauda (Mitchill, 1818) Aluterus cultrifrons Hollard, 1855 Aluterus holbroocki Hollard, 1855 Aluterus punctatus (Agassiz, 1831) Aluterus schoepfi (Walbaum, 1792) (misspelling) Aluterus shoepfii (Walbaum, 1792) (misspelling) Balistes aurantiacus Mitchill, 1815 Balistes cuspicauda Mitchill, 1818 Balistes schoepfii Walbaum, 1792 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Eschmeyer, N.M., K.V. Rama-Rao & L.E. Hallacher (1979). Fishes of the Scorpionfish subfamily Choridactylinae from the Western Pacific and the Indian Ocean. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. Fourth Series. Vol.XLI (21): 475-500. [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] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Maine (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Taeniacanthus occidentalis (Wilson C.B., 1924) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: Feeds on a variety of plants, including algae and seagrasses [details] Distribution: Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts of the United States, Bermuda, Bahamas, and Brazil, not uncommon in summer as far north as Cape Cod; reported to Portland, Maine and Halifax Nova Scotia [details] Habitat: usually found over bottoms with seagrass, sand, or mud [details] Habitat: benthic [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159490 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Aluterus 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=159490 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||||||||
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