WoRMS taxon details
Lutjanus ehrenbergii (Peters, 1869)
AphiaID: 218489
AphiaID: 218489
| 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 |
Lutianus ehrenbergi (Peters, 1869) (misspelling) Lutianus ehrenbergii (Peters, 1869) Lutjanus ehrenbergi (Peters, 1869) (misspelling) Lutjanus ehrevbergi (Peters, 1869) (misspelling) Lutjanus oligolepis Bleeker, 1873 Mesoprion ehrenbergii Peters, 1869 | ||||||||||
| 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, brackish, fresh, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Comores [details] Djibouti [details] East Africa [details] Eritrea [details] Gazi Bay (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (12 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (15 nucleotides; 3 proteins) To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Inhabits coral reefs. Juveniles frequent inshore areas over sand, silt, or coral rubble bottoms, occasionally in mangrove-lined streams and estuaries. Feeds on small fish and invertebrates (Ref. 5213). [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218489 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Lutjanus ehrenbergii (Peters, 1869). 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=218489 on 2013-05-26 | |||||||||||
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