WoRMS taxon details
Arothron hispidus (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 219925
AphiaID: 219925
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Tetraodontiformes (Order) > Tetraodontidae (Family) > Arothron (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Arothron Müller, 1841 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Crayracion hispidus (Linnaeus, 1758) Dilobomycterus hispidus (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym) Takifugu hispidus (Linnaeus, 1758) Tetraodon hispidus Linnaeus, 1758 Tetraodon perspicillaris Rüppell, 1829 Tetraodon sazanami Tanaka, 1916 Tetraodon semistriatus Rüppell, 1837 Tetrodon hispidus Linnaeus, 1758 (misspelling) Tetrodon laterna Richardson, 1845 Tetrodon pusillus Klunzinger, 1871 | |||||||||||||
| 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: 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] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, brackish, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] South Africa (country) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Caligus tetrodontis Barnard, 1948 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Dissonus similis Kabata, 1966 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Peniculisa wilsoni Radhakrishnan & Nair, 1977 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Pseudocaligus subparvus Hameed, 1977 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Hatschekia longiabdominalis Uyeno & Nagasawa, 2013 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (27 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (23 nucleotides; 42 proteins) To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Authority: Lacepede as author in Kalk (1958). [details] Description: Inhabits outer reef slopes to depths of at least 50 m, inner reef flats and lagoons and estuaries. Usually solitary and territorial on sandy to rubbly areas rather than on coral-rich areas. Occurs at 25 °C. Feeds on fleshy, calcareous, or coralline algae, detritus, molluscs, tunicates, sponges, corals, zoanthid anemones, crabs, tube worms and echinoderms. [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:219925 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Arothron hispidus. 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=219925 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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