WoRMS taxon details
Gomphosus caeruleus Lacepède, 1801
AphiaID: 218976
AphiaID: 218976
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Labridae (Family) > Gomphosus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Gomphosus Lacepède, 1801 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Gomphosus caeruleus klunzingeri Klausewitz, 1962 Gomphosus coeruleus Lacepède, 1801 (misspelling) Gomphrosus caeruleus Gomphrosus caeruleus caeruleus Lacepède, 1801 (misspelling) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details] additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] | |||||||||||||
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Gomphosus caeruleus klunzingeri Klausewitz, 1962 accepted as Gomphosus caeruleus Lacepède, 1801 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] Kenya [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (11 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 7 proteins) To IUCN Red List To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Occurs on coral and rocky reefs. Feeds on small invertebrates (Ref. 5374). [details] Publication date: Year of description given as 1802 in <127>. [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218976 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Gomphosus caeruleus Lacepède, 1801. 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=218976 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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