WoRMS taxon details
Leiognathus equulus (Forsskål, 1775)
AphiaID: 218459
AphiaID: 218459
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Leiognathidae (Family) > Leiognathus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Leiognathus Lacepède, 1802 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Equula caballa Valenciennes, 1835 Equula edentula (Bloch, 1795) Equula ensifera Cuvier, 1829 Equula totta Cuvier, 1829 Leiognathus argenteus Lacepède, 1802 Leiognathus edentulus (Bloch, 1795) Leiognathus equula (Forsskål, 1775) Leiognathus obscura Seale, 1901 Scomber edentulus Bloch, 1795 Scomber equula Forsskål, 1775 | |||||||||||||
| 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] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, brackish, fresh, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Comores [details] Djibouti [details] Gazi Bay [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 |
Sanya equulus Song & Chen, 1976 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Naricolax longispina Ho & Lin, 2005 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (26 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (51 nucleotides; 35 proteins) To IUCN Red List To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Found in river mouths and muddy inshore areas. Adults move in schools. Feeds on polychaetes, small crustaceans, and small fish. Occurs at temperatures ranging from 26 to 29°C (Ref. 4959). [details] Spelling: spelled as L. equula in Macnae & Kalk (1958). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218459 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Leiognathus equulus (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=218459 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||
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