WoRMS taxon details

Elagatis bipinnulata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825)

126809  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126809)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
Description Usually found at or near the surface, over reefs or sometimes far offshore. Schools from the surface to depths of at least...  
Description Usually found at or near the surface, over reefs or sometimes far offshore. Schools from the surface to depths of at least 150 m in clear offshore waters, but occasionally enters deep clear lagoons or seaward reefs as shallow as 3 m. Feeds on invertebrates, small fishes and squid. Good food fish (Ref. 9626) and is marketed fresh and salted/dried (Ref. 9283); also frozen and used for sashimi (Ref. 9987). [details]

Distribution Western Atlantic: Massachusetts, USA and northern Gulf of Mexico to northeastern Brazil.   
Distribution Western Atlantic: Massachusetts, USA and northern Gulf of Mexico to northeastern Brazil.  [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Elagatis bipinnulata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126809 on 2024-03-29
Date
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
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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 (HKRMS) Tang Y.W. (1975) Sea Life Around Hong Kong v.6. Hong Kong Fish Marketing Organization, Hong Kong. [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]   

context source (PeRMS) Chirichigno, N.; Cornejo, M. (2001). Catálogo comentado de los peces marinos del Perú. <em>2ª ed. Instituto del Mar de Perú. Publicación Especial. Callao.</em> 314 p. [details]   

basis of record van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS[details]   

additional source 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 King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 431-554. [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.; 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 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Description Usually found at or near the surface, over reefs or sometimes far offshore. Schools from the surface to depths of at least 150 m in clear offshore waters, but occasionally enters deep clear lagoons or seaward reefs as shallow as 3 m. Feeds on invertebrates, small fishes and squid. Good food fish (Ref. 9626) and is marketed fresh and salted/dried (Ref. 9283); also frozen and used for sashimi (Ref. 9987). [details]

Distribution Western Atlantic: Massachusetts, USA and northern Gulf of Mexico to northeastern Brazil.  [details]

Habitat nektonic [details]

Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]

Remark Date and spelling Smith-Vaniz, pers. comm. [details]
LanguageName 
English rainbow runner  [details]
Japanese ツムブリ  [details]
Spanish macarela salmón  [details]