WoRMS taxon details
Echiodon dawsoni Williams & Shipp, 1982
158996 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158996)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Williams, J. T.; Shipp, R. L. (1982). A new species of the genus Echiodon (Pisces: Carapidae) from the eastern Gulf of Mexico. <em>Copeia.</em> 1982 (no. 4): 845-851. [details]
Distribution Western Central Atlantic: off Sable Island to NE Gulf of Mexico and the Straits of Florida
Distribution Western Central Atlantic: off Sable Island to NE Gulf of Mexico and the Straits of Florida [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Echiodon dawsoni Williams & Shipp, 1982. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158996 on 2025-05-08
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
Nomenclature
original description
Williams, J. T.; Shipp, R. L. (1982). A new species of the genus Echiodon (Pisces: Carapidae) from the eastern Gulf of Mexico. <em>Copeia.</em> 1982 (no. 4): 845-851. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [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] 
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 Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas. 2002. November, 2002. [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 Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas. 2002. November, 2002. [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]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Distribution Western Central Atlantic: off Sable Island to NE Gulf of Mexico and the Straits of Florida [details]Habitat benthic [details]
Habitat depth range 60 - 180 m [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | chain pearlfish | [details] |
