WoRMS taxon details
Gazza minuta (Bloch, 1795)
AphiaID: 218451
AphiaID: 218451
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Leiognathidae (Family) > Gazza (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Gazza Rüppell, 1835 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Equula dispar De Vis, 1884 Equula minuta (Bloch, 1795) Gaza minuta (Bloch, 1795) (misspelling) Gazza argentaria (Forster, 1801) Gazza dispar (De Vis, 1884) Gazza equulaeformis Rüppell, 1835 Gazza equulasformis Rüppell, 1835 (misspelling) Gazza equuleformis Rüppell, 1835 (misspelling) Gazza minuata (Bloch, 1795) (misspelling) Gazza tapeinosoma Bleeker, 1853 Scomber minutus Bloch, 1795 Zeus argentarius Forster, 1801 | ||||||||||
| 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 | Djibouti [details] Eritrea [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] Ungama Bay [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Clavella adunca (Strøm, 1762) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lernanthropus gazzis Song & Chen, 1976 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Proclavellodes pillai Kabata, 1967 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Nothobomolochus quadriceros Pillai, 1973 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Nothobomolochus gazzae (Shen, 1957) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (28 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (56 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (43 nucleotides; 31 proteins) To IUCN Red List To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Found in coastal waters; predominantly close to the substrate. Feeds on small fish, shrimps, other crustaceans, and polychaetes. Occurs at temperatures ranging from 26 to 29°C. Sold fresh and dried salted in markets, also made into fishmeal. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218451 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Gazza minuta (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=218451 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||
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