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Chaetodon mesoleucos Forsskål, 1775 
AphiaID: 218739

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Chaetodontidae (Family) > Chaetodon (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Chaetodon Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymised
taxa
  Chaetodon hadjan Bloch & Schneider, 1801
Chaetodon mesoleucor Forsskål, 1775 (misspelling)
Chaetodon mesoleucus Forsskål, 1775 (misspelling)
Sources  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
 
Language   Name 
English paleface butterflyfish  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Djibouti [details]
Red Sea [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218739
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1998-06-17 06:27:10Z  created  Fondo, Esther
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Chaetodon mesoleucos Forsskål, 1775. 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=218739 on 2013-05-21
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