WoRMS taxon details
Caranx melampygus Cuvier, 1833
AphiaID: 218419
AphiaID: 218419
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Carangidae (Family) > Caranx (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Caranx Lacepède, 1801 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Carangichthys melampygus (Cuvier, 1833) Carangus melampygus (Cuvier, 1833) Caranx medusicola Jordan & Starks, 1895 Caranx melampyges Cuvier, 1833 (misspelling) Caranx stellatus Eydoux & Souleyet, 1850 Caranx valenciennei Castelnau, 1873 Carynx melampygus (Cuvier, 1833) (misspelling) | ||||||||||
| 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, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Chagos [details] Comores [details] Djibouti [details] Eritrea [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Rodriguez [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Caligus coryphaenae Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus robustus Bassett-Smith, 1898 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Caligus longipedis Bassett-Smith, 1898 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Caligus platurus Kirtisinghe, 1964 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Parapetalus longipennatus Rangnekar, 1956 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Parechetus constrictus Kirtisinghe, 1964 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Lernanthropus giganteus Krøyer, 1863 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Caligus confusus Pillai, 1961 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Dentigryps ulua Lewis A.G., 1964 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Parapetalus parapetalopsis (Hameed & Pillai, 1973) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (25 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (72 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (24 nucleotides; 57 proteins) To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: An occasionally schooling species which is common in clear lagoons and seaward reefs. Feeds on fish (Ref. 5213). According to some authors, this species may invade shallow reefs at night to feed (Ref. 9283). Often toxic when it reaches a length of more than 50 cm (Ref. 4795). Marketed fresh and dried/salted (Ref. 9283). [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218419 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Caranx melampygus Cuvier, 1833. 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=218419 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||
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