WoRMS taxon details
Selene vomer (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 159649
AphiaID: 159649
| 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 |
Zeus gallus Linnaeus, 1758 Zeus vomer Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||
| 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] 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] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Environment | marine, brackish, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Caligus longipedis Bassett-Smith, 1898 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To AnimalsAndEarth (David Shale) To Barcode of Life (25 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (175 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 14 proteins) To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: Feeds on small crabs, shrimps, fishes and worms [details] Distribution: Western Atlantic: from Maine to Florida, USA (possibly from Nova Scotia, Canada), along coasts of central and south America to Uruguay, including Bermuda and Gulf of Mexico. Rare in Greater Antilles [details] Habitat: Found in shallow coastal waters, usually over hard or sandy bottoms. [details] Habitat: benthic [details] Importance: Social- Minor Commercial fishery, gamefish and aquarium fish [details] synonymy: senior syn. of vomer setapinnis [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159649 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Selene vomer (Linnaeus, 1758). 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=159649 on 2013-06-20 | |||||||||||
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