WoRMS name details

Mycteroperca microlepsis (Goode & Bean, 1879)

159232  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159232)

 unaccepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
Distribution Western Atlantic: North Carolina, USA (with juveniles occurring as far north as Massachusetts) to the Yucatan Peninsula,...  
Distribution Western Atlantic: North Carolina, USA (with juveniles occurring as far north as Massachusetts) to the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Rare in Bermuda; one record in Cuba; also reported from eastern Brazil.  [details]
WoRMS (2024). Mycteroperca microlepsis (Goode & Bean, 1879). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159232 on 2024-04-20
Date
action
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2005-05-27 09:47:05Z
created
2010-03-23 10:02:09Z
changed

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basis of record Robins, C. R.; Ray, G. C.; Douglass, J.; Freund, R. (1986). A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. <em>Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston.</em> 1-354. [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]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Distribution Western Atlantic: North Carolina, USA (with juveniles occurring as far north as Massachusetts) to the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Rare in Bermuda; one record in Cuba; also reported from eastern Brazil.  [details]

Habitat benthic [details]
LanguageName 
English gag  [details]