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Symphurus marginatus (Goode & Bean, 1886)

159359  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159359)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Chordata (Phylum)
  4. Vertebrata (Subphylum)
  5. Gnathostomata (Infraphylum)
  6. Osteichthyes (Parvphylum)
  7. Actinopterygii (Gigaclass)
  8. Actinopteri (Superclass)
  9. Teleostei (Class)
  10. Pleuronectiformes (Order)
  11. Cynoglossidae (Family)
  12. Symphurinae (Subfamily)
  13. Symphurus (Genus)
  14. Symphurus marginatus (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Aphoristia marginata Goode & Bean, 1886) Goode, G. B. ; Bean, T. H. (1886). Reports on the results of dredging ... in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879-80), by the U.S. coast survey steamer "Blake," ... XXVIII.--Description of thirteen species and two genera of fishes from the "Blake" collection. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.</em> v. 12 (no. 5): 153-170. [details] 
Distribution Western Atlantic: off New Jersey southward along eastern United States, Gulf of Mexico, off the Bahamas, the Greater...  
Distribution Western Atlantic: off New Jersey southward along eastern United States, Gulf of Mexico, off the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles at Puerto Rico, throughout southern Caribbean Sea from Honduras to Venezuela, and from Trinidad and Tobago to southeastern Brazil [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Symphurus marginatus (Goode & Bean, 1886). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159359 on 2025-05-11
Date
action
by
2005-05-27 09:47:05Z
created
Appeltans, Ward
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
changed
Bailly, Nicolas

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Nomenclature

original description (of Aphoristia marginata Goode & Bean, 1886) Goode, G. B. ; Bean, T. H. (1886). Reports on the results of dredging ... in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879-80), by the U.S. coast survey steamer "Blake," ... XXVIII.--Description of thirteen species and two genera of fishes from the "Blake" collection. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.</em> v. 12 (no. 5): 153-170. [details] 

basis of record Moore, J. A.; Vecchione, M.; Collette, B.B.; Gibbons; R. (2002). The fauna of Bear Seamount (New England Seamount chain), and the presence of "natural invader" species. <em>ICES Annual Science Conference and ICES Centenary.</em> [details] 

Ecology

ecology 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] OpenAccess publication

Other

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] 

additional source McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] 

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [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
Distribution Western Atlantic: off New Jersey southward along eastern United States, Gulf of Mexico, off the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles at Puerto Rico, throughout southern Caribbean Sea from Honduras to Venezuela, and from Trinidad and Tobago to southeastern Brazil [details]

Habitat benthic [details]
    Definitions

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LanguageName 
English margined tonguefish  [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Aphoristia marginata Goode & Bean, 1886)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) 
To FishBase 
To FishBase (from synonym Aphoristia marginata Goode & Bean, 1886)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (Aphoristia marginata P00809 illustration) (from synonym Aphoristia marginata Goode & Bean, 1886)
To ITIS
Unreviewed
Symphurus marginatus, 399 m Gulf of Mexico Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Gulf of Mexico 2017. Identification from photograph by T. Munroe.
Symphurus marginatus, 408 m Gulf of Mexico Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Gulf of Mexico 2017. Identification from photograph by T. Munroe.
Symphurus marginatus, 612 m Gulf of Mexico Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Gulf of Mexico 2017. Identification from photograph by T. Munroe.
To NMNH Extant Collection (Aphoristia marginata P00809 illustration)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Aphoristia marginata P00809 illustration)
Hosted externally, from synonym
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