WoRMS taxon details

Lithognathus mormyrus (Linnaeus, 1758)

127055  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127055)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Sparus mormyrus Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</em> , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
Description Found on the shelf, over sandy and muddy bottoms as well as seagrass-beds and sometimes enters brackish waters. Gregarious,...  
Description Found on the shelf, over sandy and muddy bottoms as well as seagrass-beds and sometimes enters brackish waters. Gregarious, sometimes forming sizeable schools. Feeds on worms, molluscs and small crustaceans. Protandric hermaphrodite (Ref. 3688). An important foodfish. Sold fresh and dried in markets. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Lithognathus mormyrus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=127055 on 2024-04-18
Date
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
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original description  (of Sparus mormyrus Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</em> , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

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 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 Found on the shelf, over sandy and muddy bottoms as well as seagrass-beds and sometimes enters brackish waters. Gregarious, sometimes forming sizeable schools. Feeds on worms, molluscs and small crustaceans. Protandric hermaphrodite (Ref. 3688). An important foodfish. Sold fresh and dried in markets. [details]
LanguageName 
Albanian murra me rripamurra  [details]
Dutch marmerbaars  [details]
English striped seabream  [details]
French marbre  [details]
Hebrew שישן מסורטט  [details]
Italian marmora  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Μουρμούρα  [details]
Russian Атлантический землерой  [details]
Spanish herrera  [details]
Turkish mirmir  [details]
Ukrainian Атлантичний землерій  [details]