WoRMS taxon details
Aspidontus dussumieri (Valenciennes, 1836)
AphiaID: 219243
AphiaID: 219243
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Blenniidae (Family) > Blenniinae (Subfamily) > Aspidontus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Aspidontus Cuvier, 1835 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Aspidontus dussumeiri (Valenciennes, 1836) (misspelling) Aspidontus fluctuans (Weber, 1909) Aspidontus gorrorensis (Herre, 1936) Aspidontus wamiziensis Smith, 1959 Blennechis dussumieri Valenciennes, 1836 Petroscirtes fluctuans Weber, 1909 Petroscirtes gorrorensis Herre, 1936 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
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] basis of record (from synonym): Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] source of synonymy (from synonym): Gon, O. (1996). Fifty years of fish systematics at the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology. Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 51: 45-78. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Chagos [details] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] South Africa (country) [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Limited data suggest that this species feeds mainly on algae and detritus<307>. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:219243 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Aspidontus dussumieri (Valenciennes, 1836). 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=219243 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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