WoRMS taxon details
Chirocentrus dorab (Forsskål, 1775)
AphiaID: 212257
AphiaID: 212257
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Clupeiformes (Order) > Chirocentridae (Family) > Chirocentrus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Chirocentrus Cuvier, 1816 | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Chirocentrus Cuvier, 1816 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Chirocentris dorab (Forsskål, 1775) (misspelling) Chirocentrus hypselosoma Bleeker, 1852 Clupea dentex Bloch & Schneider, 1801 Clupea dorab Forsskål, 1775 Esox chirocentrus Lacepède, 1803 | |||||||||||||
| 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] | |||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Environment | marine, brackish, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Djibouti [details] Eritrea [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Rodriguez [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Caligus longicaudatus Brady, 1899 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Clavellopsis appendiculata Kirtisinghe, 1950 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Isobranchia appendiculata Heegaard, 1947 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Lernanthropus chirocentrosus Tripathi, 1962 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (20 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (138 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FAO Species fact sheets To FishBase To GenBank (26 nucleotides; 48 proteins) To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Occurs inshore. In Australia, it was reported in water temperatures of 26.0-29.0 °C (Ref. 4959). Feeds mainly on small fishes, but perhaps also crustaceans. Marketed fresh, frozen or dried and salted <111>. Widely distributed in the Indian and Pacific Oceans <360>. [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212257 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Chirocentrus dorab (Forsskål, 1775). 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=212257 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||
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