WoRMS taxon details
Premnas biaculeatus (Bloch, 1790)
AphiaID: 212768
AphiaID: 212768
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Pomacentridae (Family) > Amphiprioninae (Subfamily) > Premnas (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Premnas Cuvier, 1817 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Chaetodon biaculeatus Bloch, 1790 Holocentrus sonnerat Lacepède, 1802 Lutianus trifasciatus Schneider, 1801 Premnas epigrammata Fowler, 1904 Premnas gibbosus Castelnau, 1875 Premnas semicinctus Cuvier, 1830 Premnas unicolor Cuvier, 1829 Sargus ensifer Gronow, 1854 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Smith, J.L.B. & M.M. Smith (1963). The fishes of Seychelles. Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University. Grahamstown. [details] basis of record: Smith, J.L.B. (1960). Coral Fishes of the Family Pomacentridae from the Western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. Ichthyological Bulletin No. 19: 317-349 [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: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Madagascar [details] Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (18 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (53 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (39 nucleotides; 28 proteins) To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Inhabits lagoons and outer reef slopes in 1 to 16 metres. Commensal with sea anemones, usually Radianthus gelam. Also reported to be associated with the anemone Entacmaea quadricolor, found mainly in protected coastal waters and lagoons. Feeds primarily on zooplankton and benthic algae (Ref. No. 4966).<111> [details] Remark: Type species of the genus but Chaetodon aculeatus in <406>. [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212768 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Premnas biaculeatus (Bloch, 1790). 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=212768 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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