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Pristipomoides aquilonaris (Goode & Bean, 1896) 
AphiaID: 159805

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Lutjanidae (Family) > Etelinae (Subfamily) > Pristipomoides (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Pristipomoides Bleeker, 1852
Synonymised
taxa
  Anthias aquilonaris Goode & Bean, 1896
Pristipomoides andersoni Ginsburg, 1952
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]

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 wenchman  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (19 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (25 nucleotides; 21 proteins)
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: Feeds mainly on small fishes [details]

Distribution: Western Atlantic: 42.29°N to North Carolina, USA and the Caribbean Sea to Guiana  [details]

Habitat: nektonic [details]

Habitat: a deep-water species [details]

Importance: Social- Minor Commercial fishery [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159805
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). Pristipomoides aquilonaris (Goode & Bean, 1896). 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=159805 on 2013-05-25
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