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Selene setapinnis (Mitchill, 1815) 
AphiaID: 159647

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Carangidae (Family) > Selene (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Selene
Synonymised
taxa		  Vomer setapinnis (Mitchill, 1815)
 Zeus setapinnis Mitchill, 1815
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://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/FishAtlas/default.htm [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]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Atlantic moonfish  [details]
English blunt-nosed shiner  [details]
English hump-backed butterfish  [details]
English moonfish  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Host of  Caligus robustus Bassett-Smith, 1898 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus longipedis Bassett-Smith, 1898 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (29 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (18 nucleotides; 18 proteins)
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: Feeds on small fishes and crustaceans. [details]

Distribution: Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada through most of the West Indies; along coasts of Gulf of Mexico and South America to Mar del Plata, Argentina. Absent from the Bahamas  [details]

Habitat: nektonic [details]

Habitat: Adults usually found near the bottom from inshore waters to at least 54 m depth, but may form schools near the surface. [details]

Importance: Social- Highly Commercial, fishery, aquarium fish [details]
Image 
Selene setapinnis
Selene setapinnis
added on 2011-03-04 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, F.J. Fife ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159647
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-05-30 09:27:08Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Selene setapinnis (Mitchill, 1815). 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=159647 on 2013-05-21
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