WoRMS taxon details
Siganus canaliculatus (Park, 1797)
AphiaID: 219687
AphiaID: 219687
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Siganidae (Family) > Siganus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Siganus Forsskål, 1775 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Amphacanthus dorsalis Valenciennes, 1835 Amphacanthus guttatus oramin Bloch & Schneider, 1801 Chaetodon canaliculatus Park, 1797 Siganus oramin (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) Teuthis dorsalis (Valenciennes, 1835) Teuthis oramin (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) Theutis dorsalis (Valenciennes, 1835) (misspelling) | ||||||||||
| 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] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Environment | marine, brackish, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Chagos [details] Kenya [details] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mtwapa [details] Seychelles [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Lepeophtheirus krishnai Kaliyamurthy, 1990 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Barcode of Life (9 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (60 nucleotides; 43 proteins) To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Authority: Authority (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) in <130> [details] Description: In contrast to @S. fuscescens@, this species seems to tolerate more turbid waters, occurring within the vicinity of rivermouths especially around seagrass beds. Are also caught in traps up to several kilometers offshore in deep, clear waters. Juveniles form very large schools in shallow bays and also on coral reef flats; school size reduces with size, with adults occurring in groups of 20 individuals or so. Herbivorous, feeds on benthic algae and to [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:219687 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Siganus canaliculatus (Park, 1797). 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=219687 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||
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