WoRMS taxon details
Terapon jarbua (Forsskål, 1775)
AphiaID: 218350
AphiaID: 218350
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Terapontidae (Family) > Terapon (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Terapon Cuvier, 1816 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Coius trivittatus Hamilton, 1822 (synonym) Grammistes servus (Bloch, 1790) Holocentrus jarbua (Forsskål, 1775) Holocentrus servus Bloch, 1790 Pterapon trivittatus Gray, 1846 Sciaena jarbua Forsskål, 1775 Stereolepis inoko Schmidt, 1931 Terapon servus (Bloch, 1790) Terapon timorensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 Therapon farna Bleeker, 1879 Therapon jarboa (Forsskål, 1775) (misspelling) Therapon jarbua (Forsskål, 1775) (misspelling) Therapon servus (Bloch, 1790) | ||||||||||
| 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: MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, brackish, fresh, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Comores [details] Djibouti [details] Gazi Bay [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Mtwapa (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] Ungama Bay [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Caligus epidemicus Hewitt, 1971 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus punctatus Shiino, 1955 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Caligus rotundigenitalis Yü, 1933 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Cresseyus nudulus Ho & Lin, 2006 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Caligus pagrosomi schlegeli Ho & Lin, 2003 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (48 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (29 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (109 nucleotides; 74 proteins) To IUCN Red List To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Occurs at a temperature range of 26.0-29.0 °C (Ref. 4959); over shallow sandy bottoms, in the vicinity of river mouths. Omnivorous (Ref. 7300); feeds on sand-dwelling invertebrates. Produces sound (Ref. 9137) [details] Remark: Family Teraponidae in <130> [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218350 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Terapon jarbua (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=218350 on 2013-05-25 | |||||||||||
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