WoRMS taxon details
Exallias brevis (Kner, 1868)
AphiaID: 219286
AphiaID: 219286
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Blenniidae (Family) > Salariinae (Subfamily) > Exallias (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Exallias Jordan & Evermann, 1905 | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Exallias Jordan & Evermann, 1905 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cirripectes leopardus (Day, 1870) Exalias brevis (Kner, 1868) (misspelling) Salarias brevis Kner, 1868 Salarias leopardus Day, 1870 | |||||||||||||
| 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: MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Chagos [details] Kenya [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] South Africa (country) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Taeniacanthus papulosus Dojiri & Cressey, 1987 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Barcode of Life (9 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 7 proteins) To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Found on the seaward edge of reefs, where it lives among corals like @Acropora@, @Pocillopora@, @Seriatopora@, @Porites@, and @Millepora@ where it feeds on coral tissues (Ref. 1602). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:219286 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Exallias brevis (Kner, 1868). 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=219286 on 2013-05-20 | ||||||||||||||
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