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WoRMS taxon detailsMenidia menidia (Linnaeus, 1766)
159228 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159228)
accepted
Species
Atherina boscii Valenciennes, 1835 · unaccepted
Atherina menidia Linnaeus, 1766 · unaccepted (synonym)
Atherina notata Mitchill, 1815 · unaccepted
Atherina viridescens Mitchill, 1815 · unaccepted
Menida menida (Linnaeus, 1766) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Menidia dentex Goode & Bean, 1882 · unaccepted
Menidia notata (Mitchill, 1815) · unaccepted
Phoxargyrea dayi Fowler, 1903 · unaccepted
marine, brackish,
(of Atherina menidia Linnaeus, 1766) Linnaeus, C. (1767). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Ed. 12. 1., Regnum Animale. 1 & 2. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature: according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places. Ed. 12. 1., Animal Kingdom. 1 & 2]. <em>Holmiae [Stockholm], Laurentii Salvii.</em> pp. 1-532 [1766] pp. 533-1327 [1767]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83650#5 [details]
Distribution southern Gulf of St. Lawrence region to Florida
Distribution southern Gulf of St. Lawrence region to Florida [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Menidia menidia (Linnaeus, 1766). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159228 on 2025-06-10
Nomenclatureoriginal description
(of Atherina boscii Valenciennes, 1835) Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1835). Histoire naturelle des poissons. <em>Tome dixième. Suite du livre neuvième. Scombéroïdes. Livre dixième. De la famille des Teuthyes. Livre onzième. De la famille des Taenioïdes. Livre douzième. Des Athérines.</em> v. 10: i-xxiv + 1-482 + 2 pp., Pls. 280-306. [details] original description (of Atherina notata Mitchill, 1815) Mitchill, S. L. (1815). The fishes of New-York, described and arranged. <em>Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York.</em> v. 1 (art. 5) (for 1814): 355-492, Pls. 1-6. page(s): 446, Pl. 4 (fig. 6) [details] original description (of Atherina viridescens Mitchill, 1815) Mitchill, S. L. (1815). The fishes of New-York, described and arranged. <em>Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York.</em> v. 1 (art. 5) (for 1814): 355-492, Pls. 1-6. page(s): 447 [details] original description (of Menidia dentex Goode & Bean, 1882) Goode, G. B. ; Bean, T. H. (1882). Descriptions of twenty-five new species of fish from the southern United States, and three new genera, Letharcus, Ioglossus, and Chriodorus. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> v. 5 (no. 297): 412-437. [details] original description (of Phoxargyrea dayi Fowler, 1903) Fowler, H. W. (1903). Descriptions of new, little known, and typical Atherinidae. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 55: 727-742, Pls. 41-44. [details] original description (of Atherina menidia Linnaeus, 1766) Linnaeus, C. (1767). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Ed. 12. 1., Regnum Animale. 1 & 2. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature: according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places. Ed. 12. 1., Animal Kingdom. 1 & 2]. <em>Holmiae [Stockholm], Laurentii Salvii.</em> pp. 1-532 [1766] pp. 533-1327 [1767]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83650#5 [details] basis of record Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. <em>Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> No. 219. 731 pp. [details] Ecologyecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] Otheradditional source
Welshman, D.; Kohler, S; Black, J.; and L. Van Guelpen. (2003). An atlas of distributions of Canadian Atlantic fishes. , available online at http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/FishAtlas/default.htm [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]  Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Diet Feeds on copepods, mysids, shrimps, small squids and marine worms [details]Distribution southern Gulf of St. Lawrence region to Florida [details] Habitat nektonic [details] Habitat Pelagic species, found on sandy seashores and in mouths of inlets. [details] Importance Scientific- trout food [details] Reproduction External fertilization.Spawns from March to August [details]
To Barcode of Life (218 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (119 publications) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (141 publications) (from synonym Menidia notata (Mitchill, 1815)) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications) (from synonym Atherina viridescens Mitchill, 1815) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (53 publications) (from synonym Atherina notata Mitchill, 1815) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (55 publications) (from synonym Atherina menidia Linnaeus, 1766) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Phoxargyrea dayi Fowler, 1903) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Menidia dentex Goode & Bean, 1882) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Atherina boscii Valenciennes, 1835) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Menidia menidia) To FishBase (from synonym Atherina notata Mitchill, 1815) To FishBase To FishBase (from synonym Atherina boscii Valenciennes, 1835) To FishBase (from synonym Atherina viridescens Mitchill, 1815) To FishBase (from synonym Menidia dentex Goode & Bean, 1882) To FishBase (from synonym Phoxargyrea dayi Fowler, 1903) To FishBase (from synonym Atherina menidia Linnaeus, 1766) To FishBase (from synonym Menida menida (Linnaeus, 1766)) To FishBase (from synonym Menidia notata (Mitchill, 1815)) To FishBase images (Menidia menidia, Canada, by Eakins, R.) To FishSounds To GenBank (105383 nucleotides; 23941 proteins) To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) To NMNH Extant Collection (Menidia menidia P08616 illustration) (from synonym Menidia dentex Goode & Bean, 1882) To NMNH Extant Collection (Menidia menidia RAD118711-001) To NMNH Extant Collection (Menidia menidia RAD118712-001) To ITIS |
