WoRMS taxon details
Monacanthus ciliatus (Mitchill, 1818)
159497 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159497)
accepted
Species
Balistes ciliatus Mitchill, 1818 · unaccepted
Monacanthus davidsonii Cope, 1871 · unaccepted
Monacanthus occidentalis Günther, 1870 · unaccepted
Monacanthus piraaca Kner, 1867 · unaccepted
Monocanthus ciliatus (Mitchill, 1818) · unaccepted (misspelling)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Balistes ciliatus Mitchill, 1818) Mitchill, S.L. (1818). Memoir on ichthyology. The fishes of New York... In a supplement to the Memoir. <em>Am. Monthly Mag. Crit. Rev.</em> 2: 241-248, 321-328.
page(s): 326 [details]
page(s): 326 [details]
Distribution Newfoundland, Bermuda and northern Gulf of Mexico to Argentina
Distribution Newfoundland, Bermuda and northern Gulf of Mexico to Argentina [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Monacanthus ciliatus (Mitchill, 1818). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159497 on 2025-03-31
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Balistes ciliatus Mitchill, 1818) Mitchill, S.L. (1818). Memoir on ichthyology. The fishes of New York... In a supplement to the Memoir. <em>Am. Monthly Mag. Crit. Rev.</em> 2: 241-248, 321-328.
page(s): 326 [details]
original description (of Monacanthus davidsonii Cope, 1871) Cope, E. D. (1871). Contribution to the ichthyology of the Lesser Antilles. <em>Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (New Series).</em> v. 14 (pt 3) (art. 5): 445-483.
page(s): 476 [details]
original description (of Monacanthus occidentalis Günther, 1870) Günther, A. (1870). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, ...[thru] ... Leptocardii, in the British Museum. v. 8: i-xxv + 1-549. [details]
basis of record Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. <em>Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> No. 219. 731 pp. [details]
page(s): 326 [details]
original description (of Monacanthus davidsonii Cope, 1871) Cope, E. D. (1871). Contribution to the ichthyology of the Lesser Antilles. <em>Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (New Series).</em> v. 14 (pt 3) (art. 5): 445-483.
page(s): 476 [details]
original description (of Monacanthus occidentalis Günther, 1870) Günther, A. (1870). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, ...[thru] ... Leptocardii, in the British Museum. v. 8: i-xxv + 1-549. [details]
basis of record Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. <em>Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> No. 219. 731 pp. [details]
Ecology
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] 
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
context source (Bermuda) Smith-Vaniz, W. F.; Collette, B. B.; Luckhurst, B. E (1999). Fishes of Bermuda: History, zoogeography, annotated checklist, and identification keys (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists - Special Publication No.4) . ASIH, 424 pp. [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 Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
context source (Bermuda) Smith-Vaniz, W. F.; Collette, B. B.; Luckhurst, B. E (1999). Fishes of Bermuda: History, zoogeography, annotated checklist, and identification keys (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists - Special Publication No.4) . ASIH, 424 pp. [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 Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Diet Feeds on plants, algae and small crustaceans [details]Distribution Newfoundland, Bermuda and northern Gulf of Mexico to Argentina [details]
Habitat Found to 50m depths, commonly in grass beds, but also over sandy and rocky bottoms. [details]
Habitat benthic [details]
Importance Social- Subsistence fishery [details]
Predators Bony fishes [details]
To Barcode of Life (50 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Monocanthus ciliatus (Mitchill, 1818))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Monacanthus davidsonii Cope, 1871)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (21 publications) (from synonym Monacanthus occidentalis Günther, 1870)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (48 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Monacanthus piraaca Kner, 1867)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Balistes ciliatus Mitchill, 1818)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Monacanthus ciliatus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Balistes ciliatus Mitchill, 1818)
To FishBase (from synonym Monacanthus piraaca Kner, 1867)
To FishBase (from synonym Monacanthus occidentalis Günther, 1870)
To FishBase (from synonym Monocanthus ciliatus (Mitchill, 1818))
To FishBase (from synonym Monacanthus davidsonii Cope, 1871)
To FishBase images (Monacanthus ciliatus, by NOAA\NMFS\Mississippi Laboratory)
To GenBank (35 nucleotides; 58 proteins)
To GenBank (35 nucleotides; 58 proteins) (from synonym Balistes ciliatus Mitchill, 1818)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Monacanthus ciliatus FIN035150 Slide 35 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Monacanthus ciliatus FIN035151 Slide 35 mm)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Monocanthus ciliatus (Mitchill, 1818))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Monacanthus davidsonii Cope, 1871)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (21 publications) (from synonym Monacanthus occidentalis Günther, 1870)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (48 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Monacanthus piraaca Kner, 1867)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Balistes ciliatus Mitchill, 1818)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Monacanthus ciliatus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Balistes ciliatus Mitchill, 1818)
To FishBase (from synonym Monacanthus piraaca Kner, 1867)
To FishBase (from synonym Monacanthus occidentalis Günther, 1870)
To FishBase (from synonym Monocanthus ciliatus (Mitchill, 1818))
To FishBase (from synonym Monacanthus davidsonii Cope, 1871)
To FishBase images (Monacanthus ciliatus, by NOAA\NMFS\Mississippi Laboratory)
To GenBank (35 nucleotides; 58 proteins)
To GenBank (35 nucleotides; 58 proteins) (from synonym Balistes ciliatus Mitchill, 1818)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Monacanthus ciliatus FIN035150 Slide 35 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Monacanthus ciliatus FIN035151 Slide 35 mm)
To ITIS
