WoRMS taxon details
Plectropomus laevis (Lacepède, 1801)
AphiaID: 218260
AphiaID: 218260
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Serranidae (Family) > Epinephelinae (Subfamily) > Plectropomus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Plectropomus Oken, 1817 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Bodianus cyclostomus Lacepède, 1802 Bodianus melanoleucos Lacepède, 1802 (misspelling) Bodianus melanoleucus Lacepède, 1802 Labrus laevis Lacepède, 1801 Paracanthistius melanoleucus (Lacepède, 1802) Plectropoma maculatum var. A Playfair, 1867 (synonym) Plectropoma maculatum var. B Playfair, 1867 (synonym) Plectropoma maculatum var. C Playfair, 1867 (synonym) Plectropoma melanoleucum (Lacepède, 1802) Plectropomus maculatum melanoleucum (Lacepède, 1802) Plectropomus melanoleucus (Lacepède, 1802) | ||||||||||
| 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] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Cargados Carajos [details] Chagos [details] Comores [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Reunion [details] Rodriguez [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (51 nucleotides; 16 proteins) To IUCN Red List To IUCN Red List To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Description: A voracious piscivore inhabiting lagoon and seaward reefs in areas of rich coral growth. Feeds exclusively on fishes. The prey comprises a variety of large reef fishes, including groupers, and this diet of large fishes is responsible for the high concentrations of ciguatera toxins. Juveniles may mimic the pufferfish @Canthigaster valentini@. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218260 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Plectropomus laevis (Lacepède, 1801). 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=218260 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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