WoRMS taxon details

Tetragonurus atlanticus Lowe, 1839

127079  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127079)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Lowe, R. T. (1839). A supplement to a synopsis of the fishes of Madeira. <em>Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.</em> (pt 7): 76-92. [details]   
Distribution Atlantic, Pacific and Indian: in tropical and subtropical waters. Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia in Canada to Panama   
Distribution Atlantic, Pacific and Indian: in tropical and subtropical waters. Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia in Canada to Panama  [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Tetragonurus atlanticus Lowe, 1839. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=127079 on 2024-04-16
Date
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
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original description Lowe, R. T. (1839). A supplement to a synopsis of the fishes of Madeira. <em>Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.</em> (pt 7): 76-92. [details]   

context source (Bermuda) Grey, M. (1955). Notes on a collection of Bermuda deep-sea fishes. Fieldiana Zoology, 37: 265-302 [details]   

context source (PeRMS) Chirichigno, N.; Cornejo, M. (2001). Catálogo comentado de los peces marinos del Perú. <em>2ª ed. Instituto del Mar de Perú. Publicación Especial. Callao.</em> 314 p. [details]   

basis of record van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS[details]   

additional source 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]   

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 Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2023). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2023)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]   

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 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Diet Feeds on soft-bodied medusae, ctenophores and especially salps; will also take plankton  [details]

Distribution Atlantic, Pacific and Indian: in tropical and subtropical waters. Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia in Canada to Panama  [details]

Habitat oceanic, mostly in the upper 91 m but adults probably deeper  [details]

Habitat nektonic [details]
LanguageName 
English bigeye squaretail  [details]
Japanese ツマリドクウロコイボダイ  [details]
Russian Алет большеглазый  [details]