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Sphyraena borealis DeKay, 1842 
AphiaID: 159813

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Sphyraenidae (Family) > Sphyraena (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Sphyraena Artedi, 1793
Sources  basis of record: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

basis of record: Collette, B.B., and G. Klein-MacPhee (eds.). 2002. Bigelow and Schroeder's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine, 3rd edition. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London. 748 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
 
Language   Name 
English northern sennet  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (61 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: From Nova Scotia to Panama and questionably to South America, but their distribution south of North Carolina is unclear because of taxonomic confusion with S. picudilla, which is sometimes synonymized with S. borealis. [details]

Habitat: nektonic [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159813
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). Sphyraena borealis DeKay, 1842. 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=159813 on 2013-05-23
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