WoRMS taxon details
Oligoplites saurus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
AphiaID: 159645
AphiaID: 159645
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Carangidae (Family) > Oligoplites (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Oligoplites Gill, 1863 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Oligoplites inornatus Gill, 1863 Oligoplites saurus inornatus Gill, 1863 Scomber saurus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 | ||||||||||
| 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 |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Oligoplites saurus inornatus Gill, 1863 accepted as Oligoplites saurus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, brackish, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Caligus robustus Bassett-Smith, 1898 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Tuxophorus caligodes Wilson C.B., 1908 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (108 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 9 proteins) To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Western Atlantic: Maine, USA and northern Gulf of Mexico to Uruguay [details] Habitat: nektonic [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159645 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Oligoplites saurus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801). 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=159645 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||
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