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Chaetodon aya Jordan, 1886

159660  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159660)

  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. Acanthuriformes (Order)
  11. Chaetodontidae (Family)
  12. Chaetodon (Genus)
  13. Chaetodon aya (Species)
 unaccepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Jordan, D. S. (1886). Notes on some fishes collected at Pensacola by Mr. Silas Stearns, with descriptions of one new species (Chaetodon aya). <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 9 (565): 225-229. [details] 
Distribution Western Central Atlantic: North Carolina and northeastern Gulf of Mexico to Yucatan in Mexico; unknown in Bahamas and Antilles  
Distribution Western Central Atlantic: North Carolina and northeastern Gulf of Mexico to Yucatan in Mexico; unknown in Bahamas and Antilles [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Chaetodon aya Jordan, 1886. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159660 on 2025-04-28
Date
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2005-05-30 09:27:08Z
created
Cuvelier, Daphne
2008-02-28 13:41:07Z
changed
Bailly, Nicolas

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Nomenclature

original description Jordan, D. S. (1886). Notes on some fishes collected at Pensacola by Mr. Silas Stearns, with descriptions of one new species (Chaetodon aya). <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 9 (565): 225-229. [details] 

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] 

Other

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 Central Atlantic: North Carolina and northeastern Gulf of Mexico to Yucatan in Mexico; unknown in Bahamas and Antilles [details]

Habitat benthic [details]
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English bank butterflyfish  [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (24 publications) 
To FishBase 
To GenBank (15 nucleotides; 11 proteins) 
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