WoRMS taxon details
Parastromateus niger (Bloch, 1795)
AphiaID: 218431
AphiaID: 218431
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Carangidae (Family) > Parastromateus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Parastromateus Bleeker, 1864 | ||||||||||
| Parent | Parastromateus Bleeker, 1864 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Apolectus niger (Bloch, 1795) (synonym) Citula halli Evermann & Seale, 1907 Formio niger (Bloch, 1795) Parastromaeus niger Bloch, 1795 (misspelling) Stromateus niger Bloch, 1795 Temnodon inornatus Kuhl & van Hasselt, 1851 | ||||||||||
| 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] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Environment | marine, brackish, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Comores [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] Ungama Bay (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Bomolochus megaceros Heller, 1865 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lernaeenicus stromatei Gnanamuthu, 1953 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Synestius caliginus Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Lernanthropus koenigii Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Thysanote appendiculata (Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (79 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FAO Species fact sheets To FishBase To GenBank (65 nucleotides; 61 proteins) To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Inhabits coastal areas with muddy substrate. Found near the bottom during daytime and is near the water surface at night. Normally forms large schools (Ref. 5213). Marketed fresh, may be dried or salted (Ref. 5284). [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218431 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Parastromateus niger (Bloch, 1795). 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=218431 on 2013-05-20 | |||||||||||
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