WoRMS taxon details
Monodactylus argenteus (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 218695
AphiaID: 218695
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Monodactylidae (Family) > Monodactylus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Monodactylus Lacepède, 1801 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Chaetodon argenteus Linnaeus, 1758 Monodachtylus argenteus (Linnaeus, 1758) (misspelling) Monodactylus argentues (Linnaeus, 1758) (misspelling) Psettus argenteus (Linnaeus, 1758) Psettus rhombeus (Forsskål, 1775) Scomber rhombeus 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] from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, brackish, fresh, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Comores [details] Djibouti [details] East Africa [details] Gazi Bay [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Mtwapa [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Rodriguez [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Anuretes branchialis Rangnekar, 1953 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus epidemicus Hewitt, 1971 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Caligus rotundigenitalis Yü, 1933 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (43 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (41 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (39 nucleotides; 60 proteins) To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: An active schooling fish usually found in estuaries, but may venture over silty coastal reefs. Feeds on plankton and detritus (Ref. 5213). Can enter and live in rivers (Ref. 4967). [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218695 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Monodactylus argenteus (Linnaeus, 1758). 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=218695 on 2013-05-26 | ||||||||||||||
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