WoRMS taxon details
Diagramma pictum (Thunberg, 1792)
AphiaID: 218536
AphiaID: 218536
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Haemulidae (Family) > Plectorhinchinae (Subfamily) > Diagramma (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Diagramma Oken, 1817 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Diagramma picta (Thunberg, 1792) (misspelling) Diagramma pictus (Thunberg, 1792) (misspelling) Perca picta Thunberg, 1792 Plectorhinchus pictus (Thunberg, 1792) Plectorhynchus pictus (Thunberg, 1792) (misspelling) Plectorrhinchus pictum (Thunberg, 1792) (misspelling) Spilotichthys pictus (Thunberg, 1792) | |||||||||||||
| 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] from synonym: Anon. (2000). FishBase 2000 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. 4 cd-roms pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Comores [details] Djibouti [details] East Africa [details] Eritrea [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Anuretes anomalus Pillai, 1967 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Anuretes hoi Prabha & Pillai, 1986 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Anuretes plectorhynchi Yamaguti, 1936 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Caligus rotundigenitalis Yü, 1933 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Anuretes grandis Ho & Lin, 2000 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (25 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (43 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Occurs in shallow coastal areas and coral reefs down to 80 m depth. Feeds on benthic invertebrates and fishes. Caught by handlines, traps, bottom longlines and trawls (Ref. 3412). Reportedly ciguatoxic in other areas (Ref. 2799). A fairly important source of food (Ref. 3670). Marketed fresh and frozen (Ref. 9987). [details] Remark: Placed in the Family Sparidae by Grove et al., 1986 <252>. P.pictus in Randall <307>. [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218536 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Diagramma pictum (Thunberg, 1792). 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=218536 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||
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