WoRMS taxon details
Lethrinus lentjan (Lacepède, 1802)
AphiaID: 212061
AphiaID: 212061
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Lethrinidae (Family) > Lethrininae (Subfamily) > Lethrinus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Lethrinus Cuvier, 1829 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Bodianus lentjan Lacepède, 1802 Letherinus lentjanus (Lacepède, 1802) (misspelling) Letherinus leutjanus (Lacepède, 1802) (misspelling) Lethrinus argenteus Valenciennes, 1830 Lethrinus cinereus Valenciennes, 1830 Lethrinus cocosensis Bleeker, 1854 Lethrinus croceopterus Valenciennes, 1830 Lethrinus flavescens Valenciennes, 1830 Lethrinus fusciceps Macleay, 1878 Lethrinus geniguttatus Valenciennes, 1830 Lethrinus glyphodon Günther, 1859 Lethrinus mahsenoides Valenciennes, 1830 Lethrinus nubilis (Cantor, 1849) Lethrinus opercularis Valenciennes, 1830 Lethrinus punctulatus Macleay, 1878 Lethrinus virescens Valenciennes, 1830 Pentapodus nubilis Cantor, 1849 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
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, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details] additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] from synonym: Randall, J.E. (1992). Red Sea Reef Fishes. Immel Publishing. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, brackish, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Chagos [details] Comores [details] Djibouti [details] East Africa [details] Eritrea [details] Kenya [details] Kenyan Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (36 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (25 nucleotides; 19 proteins) To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Inhabits sandy bottoms in coastal areas, deep lagoons and near coral reefs. Juveniles and small adults commonly in loose aggregations over seagrass beds, mangrove swamps and shallow sandy areas while adults are generally solitary in deeper waters. Feeds primarily on crustaceans and molluscs but echinoderms, polychaetes and fishes are also consumed in considerable quantities (Ref. 2295). Also caught with handlines and beach seines (Ref. 9775). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212061 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Lethrinus lentjan (Lacepède, 1802). 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=212061 on 2013-05-18 | ||||||||||||||
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