WoRMS taxon details
Hemigymnus melapterus (Bloch, 1791)
AphiaID: 218998
AphiaID: 218998
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Labridae (Family) > Corinae (Subfamily) > Hemigymnus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Hemigymnus Günther, 1861 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Halichoeres melapterus (Bloch, 1791) Hamigymnus melapterus (Bloch, 1791) (misspelling) Hemigymnus melapturus (Bloch, 1791) (misspelling) Labrus melapterus Bloch, 1791 | |||||||||||||
| 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] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] Kenya [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Hatschekia hemigymni Kabata, 1991 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Barcode of Life (30 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (27 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (37 nucleotides; 18 proteins) To IUCN Red List To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Found in subtidal reef flats and lagoon and seaward reefs up to at least 30 m deep (Ref. 1602). Feeds mainly on small invertebrates, especially crustaceans, polychaete worms, molluscs and brittle stars (Ref. 9823). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218998 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Hemigymnus melapterus (Bloch, 1791). 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=218998 on 2013-06-20 | ||||||||||||||
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