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Calloplesiops altivelis (Steindachner, 1903) 
AphiaID: 218340

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Plesiopidae (Family) > Plesiopinae (Subfamily) > Calloplesiops (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Calloplesiops Fowler & Bean, 1930
Synonymised
taxa		  Barrosia barrosi Smith, 1952
 Callopresiops altivelis (Steindachner, 1903) (misspelling)
 Plesiops altivelis Steindachner, 1903
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: Randall, J.E. (1992). Red Sea Reef Fishes. Immel Publishing. [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]

source of synonymy (from synonym): Gon, O. (1996). Fifty years of fish systematics at the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology. Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 51: 45-78. [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English comet  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Chagos [details]
Mozambique [details]
Red Sea [details]
Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 9 proteins)
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218340
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1998-06-12 06:53:36Z  created  Fondo, Esther
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Calloplesiops altivelis (Steindachner, 1903). 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=218340 on 2013-06-18
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