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WoRMS taxon detailsAmmodytes americanus DeKay, 1842
159587 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159587)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish,
DeKay, J. E. (1842). Zoology of New-York, or the New-York fauna; comprising detailed descriptions of all the animals hitherto observed within the state of New-York, with brief notices of those occasionally found near its borders, and accompanied by appropriate illustrations. Part IV. Fishes. <em>W. & A. White & J. Visscher, Albany. (part of: Natural History of New York).</em> i-xv + 1-415, Pls. 1-79. [Plates in separate volume; fishes, Pls. 1-79 [most in color].]. [details]
Distribution Labrador to southern Delaware
Distribution Labrador to southern Delaware [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Ammodytes americanus DeKay, 1842. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159587 on 2025-02-06
Date action by
original description
DeKay, J. E. (1842). Zoology of New-York, or the New-York fauna; comprising detailed descriptions of all the animals hitherto observed within the state of New-York, with brief notices of those occasionally found near its borders, and accompanied by appropriate illustrations. Part IV. Fishes. <em>W. & A. White & J. Visscher, Albany. (part of: Natural History of New York).</em> i-xv + 1-415, Pls. 1-79. [Plates in separate volume; fishes, Pls. 1-79 [most in color].]. [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 Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Diet Feeds on copepods, mysids, amphipods, snails, clams, isopods, crabs and polychaetes [details]Distribution Labrador to southern Delaware [details] Habitat benthic [details] Habitat Bottom living species found in shallow bays and protected bays and estuaries, often on or burrowing into sandy bottom; to 20 m in Gulf of Maine. [details] Importance Social- Potential commercial importance [details] Predators Atlantic cod, haddock, pollock, plaice, yellowtail flounder, common dolphinfish, silver hake, finback whale [details] Reproduction Spawning occurs between November and February [details]
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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (153 publications) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ammodytes americanus) To FishBase To FishBase images (Ammodytes americanus, Canada, by Sargent, P.) To FishSounds To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 32 proteins) To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) To NMNH Extant Collection (Ammodytes americanus RAD112801-001) To ITIS |
