WoRMS taxon details
Pomadasys kaakan (Cuvier, 1830)
AphiaID: 218566
AphiaID: 218566
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Haemulidae (Family) > Haemulinae (Subfamily) > Pomadasys (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Pomadasys Lacepède, 1802 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Pomadasys kakaan (Cuvier, 1830) (misspelling) Pomadasys nageb (Rüppell, 1838) Pomodasys kaakan (Cuvier, 1830) (misspelling) Pristipoma kaakan Cuvier, 1830 | ||||||||||
| 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, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Comores [details] Djibouti [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mozambique [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Lernanthropus pomadasysis Rangnekar & Murti, 1961 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Barcode of Life (17 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 7 proteins) To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Inhabits turbid inshore waters with sandy to muddy bottoms to a depth of 75 m. Also caught using bottom longlines. Feeds on crustaceans and fish (Ref. 5213). Often associated with inshore wrecks (Ref. 4332). [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218566 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Pomadasys kaakan (Cuvier, 1830). 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=218566 on 2013-05-19 | |||||||||||
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