WoRMS taxon details

Uraspis secunda (Poey, 1860)

159658  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159658)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
Description Mostly oceanic and pelagic but sometimes found near bottom, often near islands. Occurs solitarily or in small schools (Ref....  
Description Mostly oceanic and pelagic but sometimes found near bottom, often near islands. Occurs solitarily or in small schools (Ref. 2850). [details]

Distribution Western Atlantic: Massachusetts, USA and northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil. Eastern Atlantic: Mauritania to Angola   
Distribution Western Atlantic: Massachusetts, USA and northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil. Eastern Atlantic: Mauritania to Angola  [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Uraspis secunda (Poey, 1860). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159658 on 2024-04-18
Date
action
by
2005-05-30 09:27:08Z
created
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
changed

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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 Robins, C. R.; Ray, G. C.; Douglass, J.; Freund, R. (1986). A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. <em>Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston.</em> 1-354. [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
Description Mostly oceanic and pelagic but sometimes found near bottom, often near islands. Occurs solitarily or in small schools (Ref. 2850). [details]

Distribution Western Atlantic: Massachusetts, USA and northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil. Eastern Atlantic: Mauritania to Angola  [details]

Habitat nektonic [details]
LanguageName 
English cottonmouthjackcottonmouth jack  [details]
Spanish jurel volantín  [details]