WoRMS taxon details
Macolor niger (Forsskål, 1775)
AphiaID: 218501
AphiaID: 218501
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Lutjanidae (Family) > Lutjaninae (Subfamily) > Macolor (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Macolor Bleeker, 1860 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Diacope macolor Lesson, 1827 Macolor macolor (Lesson, 1827) Macolor typus Bleeker, 1860 Sciaena nigra 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, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Chagos [details] Comores [details] Djibouti [details] East Africa [details] Eritrea [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Shiinoa bakeri Cressey & Cressey, 1986 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Dissonus excavatus Boxshall, Lin, Ho, Ohtsuka, Venmathi Maran & Justine, 2008 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Caligus macoloricola Hayes, Justine & Boxshall, 2012 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 13 proteins) To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Inhabits coastal waters and is usually seen solitarily. Adults reported to occur in large schools in depths usually less than 30 m (Ref. 9821). Feeds largely on fishes and crustaceans. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218501 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Macolor niger (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=218501 on 2013-06-20 | |||||||||||
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