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CaRMS taxon detailsLophius americanus Valenciennes, 1837
159184 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159184)
accepted
Species
marine,
Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1837). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome douzième. Suite du livre quatorzième. Gobioïdes. Livre quinzième. Acanthoptérygiens à pectorales pédiculées. v. 12, pp i-xxiv + 1-507 + 1 p., Pls. 344-368., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4445812 [details]
Distribution Northern Gulf of St. Lawrence to northern Florida
Distribution Northern Gulf of St. Lawrence to northern Florida [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2021). FishBase. Lophius americanus Valenciennes, 1837. Accessed through: Kennedy, M.K., L. Van Guelpen, G. Pohle, L. Bajona (Eds.) (2021) Canadian Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/carms./aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159184 on 2025-05-11
Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2025). Canadian Register of Marine Species. Lophius americanus Valenciennes, 1837. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159184 on 2025-05-11
original description
Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1837). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome douzième. Suite du livre quatorzième. Gobioïdes. Livre quinzième. Acanthoptérygiens à pectorales pédiculées. v. 12, pp i-xxiv + 1-507 + 1 p., Pls. 344-368., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4445812 [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [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 Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., 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]   Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Diet Feeds on fishes including herring, sand lance, alewives, smelt and cod [details]Distribution Northern Gulf of St. Lawrence to northern Florida [details] Habitat benthic [details] Habitat Found to depths of 100 m, inhabiting the continental shelf. [details] Importance Social [details] Predators Sandbar shark, tiger shark, blue shark and swordfish [details] Reproduction Spawns from June until September in the Canadian waters, open water/ Substratum egg scatterers [details]
To Barcode of Life (43 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (94 publications) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lophius americanus) To FAO Species fact sheets To FishBase To FishBase images (Lophius americanus, Canada, by Sargent, P.) To FishSounds To GenBank (1336 nucleotides; 147 proteins) To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) To NMNH Extant Collection (Lophius piscatorius P15003 illustration) To ITIS |
