WoRMS taxon details
Lutjanus sanguineus (Cuvier, 1828)
AphiaID: 218487
AphiaID: 218487
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Lutjanidae (Family) > Lutjaninae (Subfamily) > Lutjanus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Lutjanus Bloch, 1790 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Diacope erythrina Rüppell, 1838 Diacope sanguinea Cuvier, 1828 Lutianus sanguineus (Cuvier, 1828) (misspelling) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp. [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, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Comores [details] Djibouti [details] Eritrea [details] Gazi Bay [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Mtwapa [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] Ungama Bay [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Lernanthropus sanguineus Song & Chen, 1976 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Norion globosus Pillai, 1967 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (22 nucleotides; 21 proteins) To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Inhabits coral and rock reefs to depths of at least 100 m. Off South Africa it displays a preference for slightly silty, turbid regions in the vicinity of sometimes shallow, offshore banks. Captured mainly at night on coral banks off Mafia Island (Tanzania) in 9 to 12 m and off Zanzibar in about 75 m. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218487 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Lutjanus sanguineus (Cuvier, 1828). 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=218487 on 2013-06-20 | |||||||||||
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