WoRMS taxon details
Parupeneus cyclostomus (Lacepède, 1801)
AphiaID: 218665
AphiaID: 218665
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Mullidae (Family) > Parupeneus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Parupeneus Bleeker, 1863 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Mullus chryserydros Lacepède, 1801 Mullus cyclostomus Lacepède, 1801 Mullus microps Bliss, 1883 Mullus radiatus Shaw, 1803 Parapeneus luteus (Valenciennes, 1831) (misspelling) Parupenaeus cyclostomus (Lacepède, 1801) (misspelling) Parupeneus chryserydros (Lacepède, 1801) Parupeneus luteus (Valenciennes, 1831) Parupeneus lutues (Valenciennes, 1831) (misspelling) Parupeneus xanthospilurus Bleeker, 1875 Psedupeneus cyclostomus (Lacepède, 1801) (misspelling) Pseudupeneus aurantiacus Seale, 1906 Pseudupeneus chryseredros (Lacepède, 1801) (misspelling) Pseudupeneus cyclostomus (Lacepède, 1801) Upeneus chryserythrus Günther, 1873 Upeneus immaculatus Bennett, 1831 Upeneus luteus Valenciennes, 1831 Upeneus oxycephalus Bleeker, 1856 Upeneus saffordi Seale, 1901 | |||||||||||||
| 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: Smith, J.L.B. & M.M. Smith (1963). The fishes of Seychelles. Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University. Grahamstown. [details] basis of record: Randall, J.E. (1992). Red Sea Reef Fishes. Immel Publishing. [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] | |||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Chagos [details] Kenya [details] Kenyan Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Lepeophtheirus dissimulatus Wilson C.B., 1905 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Irodes sauridi (Pillai, 1963) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Irodes upenei (Yamaguti, 1954) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (19 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 7 proteins) To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Occurs in clear-water habitats from reef flats and lagoons to a depth of at least 92 m on seaward reefs. Prefers coral and rocky or rubbly bottoms. Juveniles form schools while large ones are usually solitary. Feeds primarily on small fishes, crustaceans, peanut worms, shrimps, crabs, octopuses, and small gastropods during the day (Ref. 3921). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218665 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Parupeneus cyclostomus (Lacepède, 1801). 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=218665 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||||||||
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