WoRMS taxon details
Gonichthys cocco (Cocco, 1829)
AphiaID: 126601
AphiaID: 126601
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Myctophiformes (Order) > Myctophidae (Family) > Gonichthys (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Gonichthys Gistel, 1850 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Alysia loricata Lowe, 1839 Gonichthys coccoi (Cocco, 1829) (misspelling) Myctophum coccoi (Cocco, 1829) (misspelling) Myctophum hians Richardson, 1845 Rhinoscopelus cocco (Cocco, 1829) Rhinoscopelus coccoi (Cocco, 1829) (misspelling) Scopelus cocco Cocco, 1829 Scopelus coccoi Günther, 1864 Scopelus gracile Lütken, 1892 Scopelus gracilis Lütken, 1892 Scopelus jagorii Peters, 1860 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Anon. (2000). FishBase 2000 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. 4 cd-roms pp. (look up in IMIS) [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, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Scott, W.B. and M.G. Scott. 1988. Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No. 219. 731 p. [details] additional source: Welshman, D., S. Kohler, J. Black and L. Van Guelpen. 2003. An atlas of distributions of Canadian Atlantic fishes. , available online at http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/FishAtlas/default.htm [details] additional source: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [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: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] North West Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] South Africa (country) [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 4 proteins) To PESI To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Western Atlantic: about 50°N, east of 40°W or south of the slope water region west of 40°W to about Brazil (absent over the minimum region off Brazil and lower abundance in the South Sargasso Sea) [details] Habitat: Nyctoepipelagic species, migrates from daytime depth of 500- 1000 m to between 0- 175 m at night. [details] Habitat: nektonic [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] Reproduction: Spawns from March to June off Bermuda [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126601 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Gonichthys cocco (Cocco, 1829). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126601 on 2013-05-20 | |||||||||||
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