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WoRMS taxon details
Selar crumenophthalmus (Bloch, 1793)
AphiaID: 159646
AphiaID: 159646
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Carangidae (Family) > Selar (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Selar | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Caranx blochii Cuvier, 1833 Caranx crumenophtalmus (Bloch, 1793) Caranx crumenophthalmus (Bloch, 1793) Caranx daubentonii Lacepède, 1801 Caranx macrophthalmus Rüppell, 1830 Caranx mauritianus Quoy & Gaimard, 1825 Caranx plumieri (Bloch, 1793) Caranx torvus Jenyns, 1841 Scomber balantiophthalmus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 Scomber crumenophthalmus Bloch, 1793 Scomber plumieri Bloch, 1793 Selar crumenophtalmus (Bloch, 1793) (misspelling) Selar crumenopthalmus (Bloch, 1793) (misspelling) Trachiurops crumenophthalmus (Bloch, 1793) (misspelling) Trachurops brachychirus Gill, 1862 Trachurops crumenophthalmus (Bloch, 1793) Trachurops crumenophthalmus crockeri Nichols, 1935 Trachurus crumenophthalmus (Bloch, 1793) | ||||||||||
| 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://collections.ic.gc.ca/FishAtlas [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 (look up in IMIS) [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] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Chagos [details] Comores [details] Djibouti [details] Eritrea [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] North West Atlantic [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To FishBase To GenBank To FAO Species fact sheets To Barcode of Life (26 barcodes) To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Generally found near the coast or in shallow waters (Ref. 9283). May also be encountered over shallow reefs but may reach depths of 170 m. Prefers clean, clear insular waters (Ref. 9626) but occasionally in turbid waters (Ref. 9283). Mainly nocturnal, it feeds on small shrimp, benthic invertebrates, forams when inshore, and zooplankton and fish larvae when offshore. Travels in compact groups of hundreds of thousands of fish. Juveniles up to 13 cm caught with light tackle (Ref. 4887). Marketed fresh (Ref. 9626). [details] Diet: Feeds on small shrimps, benthic invertebrates, and forams when inshore, and zooplankton and fish larvae when offshore [details] Distribution: Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada and Bermuda to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; throughout the Bahamas, Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea [details] Habitat: Prefers clear oceanic waters around islands to neritic waters. [details] Habitat: nektonic [details] Importance: Social- Highly Commercial, fishery, gamefish, bait [details] Reproduction: Open water/ substratum egg scatterers [details] | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2009). Selar crumenophthalmus (Bloch, 1793). In: Nicolas Bailly (2009). World Database of Marine Pisces. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159646 on 2010-07-30 | |||||||||||
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