WoRMS taxon details

Acanthocybium solandri (Cuvier, 1832)

127014  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127014)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Cybium solandri Cuvier, 1832) Cuvier, G. ; Valenciennes, A. (1832). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome huitième. Livre neuvième. Des Scombéroïdes. v. 8: i-xix + 5 pp. + 1-509, Pls. 209-245. [Cuvier authored pp. 1-470; Valenciennes 471-509. Date of 1831 on title page. i-xv + 1-375 in Strasbourg edition.].
page(s): 192 [details]   
Description An oceanic species frequently solitary or forming small loose aggregations rather than compact schools. Feeds on scombrids,...  
Description An oceanic species frequently solitary or forming small loose aggregations rather than compact schools. Feeds on scombrids, porcupinefishes, flyingfishes, herrings and pilchards, scads, lanternfishes, other pelagic fishes and squids. Each mature female may release 6 million eggs per spawning season (Ref. 9340). An important sport fish in some areas and caught with troll lines, artificial lures, or live bait (Ref. 9340). Marketed fresh, salted or spice-cured (slices of meat); also frozen (Ref. 9987). Flesh of very good quality (Ref. 9684). [details]

Distribution Atlantic, Indian and Pacific: in tropical and subtropical waters, including the Caribbean and Mediterranean seas; as far...  
Distribution Atlantic, Indian and Pacific: in tropical and subtropical waters, including the Caribbean and Mediterranean seas; as far north as 44°N in Canadian Atlantic [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Acanthocybium solandri (Cuvier, 1832). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=127014 on 2024-03-19
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original description  (of Cybium solandri Cuvier, 1832) Cuvier, G. ; Valenciennes, A. (1832). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome huitième. Livre neuvième. Des Scombéroïdes. v. 8: i-xix + 5 pp. + 1-509, Pls. 209-245. [Cuvier authored pp. 1-470; Valenciennes 471-509. Date of 1831 on title page. i-xv + 1-375 in Strasbourg edition.].
page(s): 192 [details]   

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 (HKRMS) Hong Kong marine fish database. <em>AFCD.</em> , available online at https://www.hk-fish.net/en/fish/introduction/ [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]   

context source (PeRMS) Chirichigno, N.; Cornejo, M. (2001). Catálogo comentado de los peces marinos del Perú. <em>2ª ed. Instituto del Mar de Perú. Publicación Especial. Callao.</em> 314 p. [details]   

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 Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas. 2002. November, 2002.  [details]   

additional source King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 431-554. [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 Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

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 An oceanic species frequently solitary or forming small loose aggregations rather than compact schools. Feeds on scombrids, porcupinefishes, flyingfishes, herrings and pilchards, scads, lanternfishes, other pelagic fishes and squids. Each mature female may release 6 million eggs per spawning season (Ref. 9340). An important sport fish in some areas and caught with troll lines, artificial lures, or live bait (Ref. 9340). Marketed fresh, salted or spice-cured (slices of meat); also frozen (Ref. 9987). Flesh of very good quality (Ref. 9684). [details]

Diet Feeds on fishes and squids [details]

Distribution Atlantic, Indian and Pacific: in tropical and subtropical waters, including the Caribbean and Mediterranean seas; as far north as 44°N in Canadian Atlantic [details]

Habitat An oceanic, epipelagic species frequently solitary or forming small loose aggregations rather than compact schools. [details]

Habitat nektonic [details]

Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]

Importance Social- Commercial, fishery and gamefish [details]

Remark Date Eschmeyer, pers. comm. [details]
LanguageName 
English wahoo  [details]
Japanese カマスサワラ  [details]
Spanish peto  [details]