WoRMS taxon details
Plectropomus maculatus (Bloch, 1790)
AphiaID: 218267
AphiaID: 218267
| 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 maculatus Bloch, 1790 Plectropoma maculatum (Bloch, 1790) (misspelling) Plectropomus maculates (Bloch, 1790) (misspelling) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Smith, J.L.B. & M.M. Smith (1963). The fishes of Seychelles. Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University. Grahamstown. [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 | East Africa [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Dissonus manteri Kabata, 1966 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Hatschekia plectopomi Ho & Dojiri, 1978 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Lepeophtheirus plectropomi Nuñes-Ruivo, 1956 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (11 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (384 nucleotides; 25 proteins) To IUCN Red List To IUCN Red List To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Common on coastal reefs. Commonly used for food. [details] Type species: Type species of genus <111>. Placed in Family Plectropomidae in <130>. [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218267 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Plectropomus maculatus (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=218267 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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