WoRMS taxon details
Polysteganus coeruleopunctatus (Klunzinger, 1870)
AphiaID: 218614
AphiaID: 218614
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Sparidae (Family) > Polysteganus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Polysteganus Klunzinger, 1870 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Dentex coeruleopunctatus Klunzinger, 1870 Polysteganus caeruleopunctatus (Klunzinger, 1870) (misspelling) | ||||||||||
| 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] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Djibouti [details] Eritrea [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 5 proteins) To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Occurs mainly in deep waters around reefs. Carnivorous predator. Not of any great commercial importance in South Africa, but taken by line fishermen and ski-boat anglers. Sold fresh in markets. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218614 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Polysteganus coeruleopunctatus (Klunzinger, 1870). 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=218614 on 2013-06-18 | |||||||||||
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