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WoRMS taxon details
Albula vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 212256
AphiaID: 212256
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Albuliformes (Order) > Albulidae (Family) > Albulinae (Subfamily) > Albula (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of | Albula Scopoli, 1777 | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Albula Scopoli, 1777 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Albula conorynchus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 Albula goreensis Valenciennes, 1847 Albula parrae Valenciennes, 1847 Albula plumieri Bloch & Schneider, 1801 Albula rostrata Gray, 1854 Amia immaculata Bloch & Schneider, 1801 Atopichthys esunculus Garman, 1899 Butyrinus bananus Lacepède, 1803 Clupea brasiliensis Bloch & Schneider, 1801 Clupea macrocephala Lacepède, 1803 Engraulis bahiensis Spix, 1829 Engraulis sericus Spix, 1829 Esox vulpes Linnaeus, 1758 Esunculus costai Kaup, 1856 Glossodus forskalii Spix & Agassiz, 1829 | ||||||||||||||||
| 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 (look up in IMIS) [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: Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas. 2002. November, 2002. , available online at http://netviewer.usc.edu/web/GMBISwebsite/ [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, brackish, | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Comores [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] North West Atlantic [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To FishBase To GenBank To Marine Species Identification Portal To Barcode of Life (114 barcodes) To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Distribution: cosmopolitan in tropical seas (Losse, 1968). Look up in FishBase [details] Distribution: off Emerald Bank to Brazil [details] Habitat: Inhabits shallow coastal waters, estuaries and bays, over sand and mud bottoms. [details] Habitat: nektonic [details] Importance: Social - Minor Commercial, gamefish [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2009). Albula vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Nicolas Bailly (2009). World Database of Marine Pisces. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212256 on 2010-09-02 | |||||||||||||||||
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