WoRMS taxon details

Siganus corallinus (Valenciennes, 1835)

219690  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:219690)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Amphacanthus corallinus Valenciennes, 1835) Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1835). Histoire naturelle des poissons. <em>Tome dixième. Suite du livre neuvième. Scombéroïdes. Livre dixième. De la famille des Teuthyes. Livre onzième. De la famille des Taenioïdes. Livre douzième. Des Athérines.</em> v. 10: i-xxiv + 1-482 + 2 pp., Pls. 280-306. [details] 
Description Occurs in coral-rich areas of lagoons. Juveniles tend to live in small schools in shallow seagrass beds and reefs; often...  
Description Occurs in coral-rich areas of lagoons. Juveniles tend to live in small schools in shallow seagrass beds and reefs; often found among @Acropora@ corals. Adults usually in pairs on shallow coral reefs and feed on benthic algae. A foodfish that is occasionally poisonous (Ref. 4537). [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Siganus corallinus (Valenciennes, 1835). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=219690 on 2025-05-05
Date
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1997-02-24 18:26:33Z
created
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
changed

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Nomenclature

original description (of Amphacanthus tetrazona Bleeker, 1855) Bleeker, P. (1855). Zevende bijdrage tot de kennis der ichthyologische fauna van Celebes. <em>Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië.</em> v. 8 (no. 3): 435-444. [details] 

original description (of Teuthis teuthopsis De Vis, 1884) De Vis, C. W. (1884). New Australian fishes in the Queensland Museum. Part II. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> v. 9 (pt 3): 453-462.
page(s): 462 [details] 

original description (of Amphacanthus corallinus Valenciennes, 1835) Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1835). Histoire naturelle des poissons. <em>Tome dixième. Suite du livre neuvième. Scombéroïdes. Livre dixième. De la famille des Teuthyes. Livre onzième. De la famille des Taenioïdes. Livre douzième. Des Athérines.</em> v. 10: i-xxiv + 1-482 + 2 pp., Pls. 280-306. [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] OpenAccess publication

Other

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

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

Unreviewed
Description Occurs in coral-rich areas of lagoons. Juveniles tend to live in small schools in shallow seagrass beds and reefs; often found among @Acropora@ corals. Adults usually in pairs on shallow coral reefs and feed on benthic algae. A foodfish that is occasionally poisonous (Ref. 4537). [details]
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English blue-spotted spinefoot  [details]
Japanese サンゴアイゴ  [details]