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Polydactylus octonemus (Girard, 1858)

159852  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159852)

accepted
Species
Polynemus octonemus Girard, 1858 · unaccepted (basionym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Polynemus octonemus Girard, 1858) Girard, C. F. (1858). Notes upon various new genera and new species of fishes, in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution, and collected in connection with the United States and Mexican boundary survey: Major William Emory, Commissioner. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 10: 167-171., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47535762#page/187/mode/1up [details]   
Type locality contained in Texas  
type locality contained in Texas [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Distribution Western Atlantic: New York to Texas, including southern Florida in USA. Some authors report this species as occurring...  
Distribution Western Atlantic: New York to Texas, including southern Florida in USA. Some authors report this species as occurring throughout northern South America [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Polydactylus octonemus (Girard, 1858). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159852 on 2024-08-06
Date
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2005-05-30 09:27:08Z
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2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
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original description  (of Polynemus octonemus Girard, 1858) Girard, C. F. (1858). Notes upon various new genera and new species of fishes, in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution, and collected in connection with the United States and Mexican boundary survey: Major William Emory, Commissioner. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 10: 167-171., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47535762#page/187/mode/1up [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 Motomura, H. (2004). Threadfins of the world (Family Polynemidae). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of polynemid species known to date. FAO Spec. Cat. Fish. Purp. Rome: FAO. 3:117 p., available online at http://www.fao.org/docrep/008/y5398e/y5398e00.htm [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
Distribution Western Atlantic: New York to Texas, including southern Florida in USA. Some authors report this species as occurring throughout northern South America [details]

Habitat benthic [details]
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LanguageName 
English Atlantic threadfin  [details]
French barbure huit doigts atlantique  [details]
Spanish barbudo ocho dedos atlánticobarbudo ocho barbas  [details]