WoRMS taxon details
Chaetodon vagabundus Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 218754
AphiaID: 218754
| 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 |
Anisochaetodon vagabundus (Linnaeus, 1758) Chaetodon mesogallicus Cuvier, 1829 (misspelling) Chaetodon nesogallicus Cuvier, 1829 Chaetodon setifer hawaiiensis Borodin, 1930 Tetragonoptrus nesogallicus (Cuvier, 1829) Tetragonoptrus vagabundus (Linnaeus, 1758) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: 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] 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] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Chaetodon vagabundus jordani Ahl, 1923 accepted as Chaetodon decussatus Cuvier, 1829 Subspecies Chaetodon vagabundus pictus Forsskål, 1775 accepted as Chaetodon pictus Forsskål, 1775 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Chagos [details] Djibouti [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Reunion [details] Rodriguez [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Caligus kapuhili Lewis A.G., 1967 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (66 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (127 nucleotides; 28 proteins) To IUCN Red List To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Inhabits reef flats and lagoon and shallow seaward reefs and sometimes in turbid waters subject to freshwater runoff. Hardly territorial and often accompanies other species without being agressive. Swims in pairs. Omnivorous, feeds on algae, coral polyps, crustaceans and worms (Ref. 5503). Easily maintained in tanks. [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218754 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Chaetodon vagabundus 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=218754 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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