WoRMS taxon details
Canthigaster coronata (Vaillant & Sauvage, 1875)
AphiaID: 219936
AphiaID: 219936
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Tetraodontiformes (Order) > Tetraodontidae (Family) > Canthigaster (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Canthigaster Swainson, 1839 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Canthigaster cinctus Jordan & Evermann, 1905 Canthigaster coronatus (Vaillant & Sauvage, 1875) (misspelling) Tetraodon coronatus Vaillant & Sauvage, 1875 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [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] | |||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
| |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | East Africa [details] Mauritius [details] Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Seychelles [details] South Africa (country) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 28 proteins) To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Inhabits sand and rubble bottoms of seaward reefs (Ref. 1602). Found mostly below depths of 23 m, but occasionally seen in as little as 6 m. Feeds on a wide variety of benthic organisms: gastropods, sponges, algae, bivalves, polychaetes, tunicates, crabs, sea urchins, heart urchins, brittle stars, bryozoans, peanut worms, various small crustaceans and foraminiferans. [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] Spelling: C. coronatus in <126> [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:219936 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
| |||||||||||||
[Taxonomic tree] [Distribution map] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images] | ||||||||||||||
| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Canthigaster coronata. 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=219936 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
 The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License |