WoRMS taxon details
Alectis ciliaris (Bloch, 1787)
AphiaID: 159629
AphiaID: 159629
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Carangidae (Family) > Alectis (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Alectis Rafinesque, 1815 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Alectes ciliaris (Bloch, 1787) (misspelling) Alectis breviventralis Wakiya, 1924 Alectis cilaris (Bloch, 1787) (misspelling) Alectis cilliaris Bloch, 1787 (misspelling) Alectis crinitus (Mitchill, 1826) Alectis indica (Cuvier, 1833) Alectis temmincki Wakiya, 1924 Blepharichthys crinitus (Mitchill, 1826) Blepharis ciliaris (Bloch, 1787) Blepharis crinitus (Mitchill, 1826) Blepharis fasciatus Rüppell, 1830 Blepharis indicus Cuvier, 1833 Blepharis major Cuvier, 1833 Blepharis sutor Cuvier, 1833 Carangoides ajax Snyder, 1904 Gallus virescens Lacepède, 1802 Hynnis cubensis Poey, 1860 Hynnis hopkinsi Jordan & Starks, 1895 Scyris analis Poey, 1868 Zeus ciliaris Bloch, 1787 Zeus crinitus Mitchill, 1826 Zeus gallus Linnaeus, 1758 (synonym) | ||||||||||
| 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] 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: 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] original description (from synonym): Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Comores [details] Djibouti [details] Eritrea [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mozambique [details] North West Atlantic [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (28 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (106 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (21 nucleotides; 20 proteins) To IUCN Red List To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Juveniles occur in open seas near the surface, adults near the bottom from shallow waters to 100 m; rarely occurs in coral reefs. Solitary at adult stage. Feeds on sedentary or slow moving crustaceans, small crabs and occasionally on small fish (Ref. 9283). Adults mainly taken on hook and line, especially on light tackle while juveniles often caught with beach seines. Excellent food fish (Ref. 9626) and is marketed fresh or dried/salted (Ref. 9283). [details] Distribution: Worldwide in tropical seas. Western Atlantic: North Truro Massachusetts, USA and Bermuda to Santos, Brazil; throughout the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico [details] Habitat: nektonic [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159629 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Alectis ciliaris (Bloch, 1787). 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=159629 on 2013-06-20 | |||||||||||
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