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Symphurus diomedeanus (Goode & Bean, 1885) 
AphiaID: 159358

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Pleuronectiformes (Order) > Cynoglossidae (Family) > Symphurinae (Subfamily) > Symphurus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Symphurus Rafinesque, 1810
Synonymised
taxa
  Aphoristia diomedeana Goode & Bean, 1885
Symphurus diomedanus (Goode & Bean, 1885) (misspelling)
Symphurus diomedianus (Goode & Bean, 1885) (misspelling)
Symphurus pterospilotus Ginsburg, 1951
Symphurus sumptuosus Chabanaud, 1948
Sources  basis of record: 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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English daubed tonguefish  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: Feeds mainly on various benthic invertebrates particularly crabs and polychaete worms  [details]

Distribution: Western Atlantic: north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, along SE Atlantic coast of US, through the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, inner continental shelf of South America to about Isla de Flores, Uruguay [details]

Habitat: Found on muddy bottoms [details]

Habitat: benthic [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159358
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-27 09:47:05Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Symphurus diomedeanus (Goode & Bean, 1885). 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=159358 on 2013-05-22
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