WoRMS taxon details

Carapus bermudensis (Jones, 1874)

To FishBase images (<i>Carapus bermudensis</i>, by Flescher, D.)
To FishBase images (Carapus bermudensis, by Flescher, D.)

158995  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158995)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Chordata (Phylum)
  4. Vertebrata (Subphylum)
  5. Gnathostomata (Infraphylum)
  6. Osteichthyes (Parvphylum)
  7. Actinopterygii (Gigaclass)
  8. Actinopteri (Superclass)
  9. Teleostei (Class)
  10. Ophidiiformes (Order)
  11. Carapidae (Family)
  12. Carapinae (Subfamily)
  13. Carapus (Genus)
  14. Carapus bermudensis (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Lefroyia bermudensis Jones, 1874) Jones, J. M. (1874). A new fish. <em>Zoologist (Ser. 2).</em> v. 9: 3837-3838. [details] 
Distribution Western Atlantic: 38.2°N to Brazil  
Distribution Western Atlantic: 38.2°N to Brazil [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Carapus bermudensis (Jones, 1874). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158995 on 2025-04-01
Date
action
by
2005-05-27 07:39:43Z
created
Cuvelier, Daphne
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
changed
Bailly, Nicolas

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Nomenclature

original description (of Carapus chavesi Ancona López, 1956) Ancona López, A. A. (1956). Ocorrencia de Carapus Raf. (=Fierasfer Oken) no Brasil (Teleostei-Carapidae). <em>Papéis Avulsos do Departmento de Zoologia, Secretaría da Agricultura, Indústria e Comércio, São Paulo.</em> v. 12 (no. 20): 389-398. [details] 

original description (of Carapus recifensis Ancona López, 1956) Ancona López, A. A. (1956). Ocorrencia de Carapus Raf. (=Fierasfer Oken) no Brasil (Teleostei-Carapidae). <em>Papéis Avulsos do Departmento de Zoologia, Secretaría da Agricultura, Indústria e Comércio, São Paulo.</em> v. 12 (no. 20): 389-398. [details] 

original description (of Lefroyia bermudensis Jones, 1874) Jones, J. M. (1874). A new fish. <em>Zoologist (Ser. 2).</em> v. 9: 3837-3838. [details] 

basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details] 

Ecology

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

Other

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] 

additional source Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas. 2002. November, 2002. [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] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Distribution Western Atlantic: 38.2°N to Brazil [details]

Habitat benthic [details]

Habitat Occurs in or near shallow seagrass beds. Lives in body cavity of sea cucumbers during daytime and leaves host at night. [details]
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English pearlfish  [details]
Spanish perlero del Atlántico  [details]
To Barcode of Life (20 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Disparichthys herrei Schultz, 1938)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications) (from synonym Lefroyia bermudensis Jones, 1874)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carapus bermudensis) 
To FishBase (from synonym Carapus chavesi Ancona López, 1956)
To FishBase (from synonym Carapus recifensis Ancona López, 1956)
To FishBase (from synonym Disparichthys herrei Schultz, 1938)
To FishBase 
To FishBase (from synonym Lefroyia bermudensis Jones, 1874)
To FishBase images (Carapus bermudensis, by Flescher, D.) 
To FishSounds 
To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 42 proteins) 
To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 42 proteins) (from synonym Lefroyia bermudensis Jones, 1874)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) 
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
To FishBase images (<i>Carapus bermudensis</i>, by Flescher, D.)
To FishBase images (Carapus bermudensis, by Flescher, D.)
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