WoRMS taxon details

Monacanthus ciliatus (Mitchill, 1818)

159497  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159497)

accepted
Species
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]   
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. (2024). FishBase. Monacanthus ciliatus (Mitchill, 1818). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159497 on 2024-04-25
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2005-05-30 07:43:33Z
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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]   

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]   

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]   

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). (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
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]
LanguageName 
English fringed filefish  [details]
Spanish lija de clavo  [details]