WoRMS name details
Carangoides ferdau (Fabricius, 1775)
218395 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218395)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
- Subspecies Carangoides ferdau jordani Nichols, 1922 accepted as Ferdauia orthogrammus (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Scomber ferdau Fabricius, 1775) Forskål P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Mölleri, Hafniae, 19 + xxxiv + 164 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2088059
page(s): 55, xii [details]
page(s): 55, xii [details]
Description Schools in open waters and lagoons and outer reef slopes. Feeds mainly on crustaceans, molluscs and small fish that are...
Description Schools in open waters and lagoons and outer reef slopes. Feeds mainly on crustaceans, molluscs and small fish that are abundant in the lagoons. The flesh is rarely poisonous. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Carangoides ferdau (Fabricius, 1775). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=218395 on 2025-04-01
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Scomber ferdau Fabricius, 1775) Forskål P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Mölleri, Hafniae, 19 + xxxiv + 164 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2088059
page(s): 55, xii [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]
page(s): 55, xii [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] 
Other
context source (HKRMS)
Hong Kong marine fish database. <em>AFCD.</em> , available online at https://www.hk-fish.net/en/fish/introduction/ [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors






Unreviewed
Description Schools in open waters and lagoons and outer reef slopes. Feeds mainly on crustaceans, molluscs and small fish that are abundant in the lagoons. The flesh is rarely poisonous. [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Carangoides ferdau, Oman, by Field, R.)
To GenBank (70 nucleotides; 59 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Carangoides ferdau FIN027481 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Carangoides ferdau FIN027482 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Carangoides ferdau, Oman, by Field, R.)
To GenBank (70 nucleotides; 59 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Carangoides ferdau FIN027481 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Carangoides ferdau FIN027482 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS