WoRMS taxon details

Lutjanus cyanopterus (Cuvier, 1828)

159796  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159796)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Mesoprion cyanopterus Cuvier, 1828) Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1828). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome second. Livre Troisième. Des poissons de la famille des perches, ou des percoïdes. 2: i-xxi + 2 pp + 1-490, Pls. 9-40.
page(s): 472 [details] 
Distribution Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia and Bermuda to mouths of the Amazon, Brazil. Throughout Bahamas, Caribbean, including Antilles  
Distribution Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia and Bermuda to mouths of the Amazon, Brazil. Throughout Bahamas, Caribbean, including Antilles [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Lutjanus cyanopterus (Cuvier, 1828). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159796 on 2024-11-05
Date
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2005-05-30 09:27:08Z
created
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
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original description (of Mesoprion cyanopterus Cuvier, 1828) Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1828). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome second. Livre Troisième. Des poissons de la famille des perches, ou des percoïdes. 2: i-xxi + 2 pp + 1-490, Pls. 9-40.
page(s): 472 [details] 

original description (of Mesoprion pargus Cuvier, 1828) Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1828). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome second. Livre Troisième. Des poissons de la famille des perches, ou des percoïdes. 2: i-xxi + 2 pp + 1-490, Pls. 9-40.
page(s): 473 [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] 

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

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 
   

Unreviewed
Diet Feeds mainly on fishes, shrimps and crabs  [details]

Distribution Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia and Bermuda to mouths of the Amazon, Brazil. Throughout Bahamas, Caribbean, including Antilles [details]

Habitat Adults found mainly around ledges over rocky bottoms or around reefs. Young sometimes inhabit mangrove areas. [details]

Habitat nektonic [details]

Importance Social- Gamefish [details]
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LanguageName 
English cubera snapper  [details]
Spanish pargo cubera  [details]