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Lutjanus vivanus (Cuvier, 1828) 
AphiaID: 159801

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Lutjanidae (Family) > Lutjaninae (Subfamily) > Lutjanus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Lutjanus Bloch, 1790
Synonymised
taxa
  Lutianus vivanus (Cuvier, 1828) (misspelling)
Lutjanus torridus Cope, 1871
Mesoprion profundus Poey, 1860
Mesoprion vivanus Cuvier, 1828
Neomansis hastingsi Bean, 1898
Sources  basis of record: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

basis of record: Robins, C.R., G.C. Ray, J. Douglass and R. Freund. 1986. A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston. 354 p. [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 silk snapper  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (14 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (24 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (15 nucleotides; 15 proteins)
To ITIS
Note  Distribution: Western Atlantic: as far north as Bermuda and North Carolina, USA and south to central Brazil.  [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159801
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-30 09:27:08Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Lutjanus vivanus (Cuvier, 1828). 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=159801 on 2013-06-20
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