Marine Species Traits - Lachnolaimus maximus (Walbaum, 1792)

WoRMS taxon details

Lachnolaimus maximus (Walbaum, 1792)

To FishBase images (<i>Lachnolaimus maximus</i>, Belize, by Randall, J.E.)

To FishBase images (Lachnolaimus maximus, Belize, by Randall, J.E.)

AphiaID

158822 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158822)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Lachnolaimus Cuvier, 1829

Original name

Labrus maximus Walbaum, 1792

Synonymised names

Labrus maximus Walbaum, 1792 · unaccepted

Lachnolaimis maximus (Walbaum, 1792) · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Labrus maximus Walbaum, 1792) Walbaum, J. J. (1792). Petri Artedi sueci genera piscium. In quibus systema totum ichthyologiae proponitur cum classibus, ordinibus, generum characteribus, specierum differentiis, observationibus plurimis. Redactis speciebus 242 ad genera 52. Ichthyologiae pars III. Ant. Ferdin. Rose, Grypeswaldiae [Greifswald]. Part 3: [i-viii] + 1-723, Pls. 1-3.
page(s): 261 [details]

Descriptive notes

Distribution Western Atlantic: from Nova Scotia (Canada), Bermuda, and northern Gulf of Mexico to northern South America.

Distribution Western Atlantic: from Nova Scotia (Canada), Bermuda, and northern Gulf of Mexico to northern South America. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Lachnolaimus maximus (Walbaum, 1792). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158822 on 2025-05-28

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-05-27 07:39:43Z

created

Cuvelier, Daphne

2008-01-15 17:27:08Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description (of Labrus maximus Walbaum, 1792) Walbaum, J. J. (1792). Petri Artedi sueci genera piscium. In quibus systema totum ichthyologiae proponitur cum classibus, ordinibus, generum characteribus, specierum differentiis, observationibus plurimis. Redactis speciebus 242 ad genera 52. Ichthyologiae pars III. Ant. Ferdin. Rose, Grypeswaldiae [Greifswald]. Part 3: [i-viii] + 1-723, Pls. 1-3.
page(s): 261 [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. Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston. 1-354. [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. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]

Other

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]

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). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]