WoRMS taxon details

Hoplostethus occidentalis Woods, 1973

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159415  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159415)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Woods, L. P.; Sonoda, P. M. (1973). Fishes of the western North Atlantic. Order Berycomorphi (Beryciformes). <em>Memoirs of the Sears Foundation of Marine Research Mem.</em> 1 (pt 6): 263-396, 66 figs, 10 tabs. [details]   
Distribution Atlantic: from southern Nova Scotia south to the northern part of the Gulf of Mexico, on the eastern seaboard of Florida,...  
Distribution Atlantic: from southern Nova Scotia south to the northern part of the Gulf of Mexico, on the eastern seaboard of Florida, in the Bahama, in the west and southern Caribbean, and around Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Tobago and Brazil.  [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2023). FishBase. Hoplostethus occidentalis Woods, 1973. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159415 on 2023-09-27
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2005-05-27 07:39:43Z
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2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
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original description Woods, L. P.; Sonoda, P. M. (1973). Fishes of the western North Atlantic. Order Berycomorphi (Beryciformes). <em>Memoirs of the Sears Foundation of Marine Research Mem.</em> 1 (pt 6): 263-396, 66 figs, 10 tabs. [details]   

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

context source (Bermuda) Smith-Vaniz, W. F.; Collette, B. B.; Luckhurst, B. E (1999). Fishes of Bermuda: History, zoogeography, annotated checklist, and identification keys (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists - Special Publication No.4) . ASIH, 424 pp. [details]   

basis of record Collette, B. B., ; Klein-MacPhee, G. (2002). Bigelow and Schroeder's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine. <em>Smithsonian Institution Press.</em> 1-748. [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.; Jézéque, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C.W.; Mooney, T.A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L.K.; Rice, A.N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Sprie, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M.J.G. Underwater Soniferous Behavior Trait Provided in the World Register of Marine Species. <em>(In preparation).</em>  [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Distribution Atlantic: from southern Nova Scotia south to the northern part of the Gulf of Mexico, on the eastern seaboard of Florida, in the Bahama, in the west and southern Caribbean, and around Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Tobago and Brazil.  [details]

Habitat nektonic [details]
LanguageName 
English western roughyAtlantic roughy  [details]
French hoplostète occidental  [details]
Hoplostethus occidentalis, 679 m Gulf of Mexico

Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Gulf of Mexico 2017. Identification from photograph by A. Quattrini.
 

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