WoRMS taxon details
Myripristis murdjan (Forsskål, 1775)
AphiaID: 217925
AphiaID: 217925
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Beryciformes (Order) > Holocentridae (Family) > Myripristinae (Subfamily) > Myripristis (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Myripristis Cuvier, 1829 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Myripristis axillaris Valenciennes, 1831 Myripristis bowditchae Woods, 1953 Myripristis intermedius Günther, 1874 Myripristis maculatus Steindachner, 1861 Myripristis melanophrys Swainson, 1839 Myripristis murdjan intermedia Günther, 1874 Myripristis parvidens Cuvier, 1829 Ostichthys murdjan (Forsskål, 1775) Ostichthys parvidens (Cuvier, 1829) Perca murdjan (Forsskål, 1775) Sciaena murdjan Forsskål, 1775 | |||||||||||||
| 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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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Myripristis murdjan intermedia Günther, 1874 accepted as Myripristis murdjan (Forsskål, 1775) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Cargados Carajos [details] Chagos [details] Comores [details] Djibouti [details] East Africa [details] Eritrea [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Rodriguez [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (14 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (95 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 10 proteins) To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Occurs in reef flats and shallow lagoon and seaward reefs to a depth of at least 37 m (in the Red Sea). Is mainly nocturnal. Feeds mainly on plankton such as crab larvae. [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217925 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Myripristis murdjan (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=217925 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||||||||
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