Boops boops

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Found on the shelf or coastal pelagic on various bottoms (sand , mud , rocks and seaweeds). May be found at depths of 0 to 350 meters. Usually found at depths of 0 to 100 meters.

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -5,091 meters (0 to -16,703 feet).[1]

Biome: Marine .

Biology

Diet

Omnivorous , feeding mainly on crustaceans, also planktophagous. Also caught in pelagic trawls [2].

Reproduction

Hermaphroditic , generally protogynous.

Behavior

Gregarious , ascending to the surface mainly at night.

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Boops boops • Boops canariensis Valenciennes • Box boops (Linnaeus • Box canariensis (Valenciennes • Box vulgaris Valenciennes • Scombrops boops • Scombrops boops (Houttuyn, 1782) • Sparus boops Linnaeus • Sparus boops Linnaeus, 1758

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 03-Aug-1994

Similar Species

Members of the genus Boops

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 3 species and subspecies in this genus:

B. boops (Gnomefish) · B. lineatus (Striped Boga) · B. tricuspidatus (Black Bream)

More Info

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Further Reading

• ... The genera of fishes. .. A contribution to the stability of scientific nomenclature. By David Starr Jordan. Stanford University, Calif., The University, 1917-1920. url p. 175.
• A guide to the study of fishes, New York, H. Holt, 1905. url .
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 254.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 151 1987 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url title , p. 271.
• Commercial fisheries review. [Washington]: National Marine Fisheries Service; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.] url p. 38.
• Current bibliography for aquatic sciences and fisheries. London, Taylor & Francis ltd. url p. 186, p. 220, p. 222, p. 331.
• Dean bibliography of fishes. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1971-1973. url p. 195, p. 196, p. 198, p. 251, p. 260, p. 521, p. 53, p. 619, p. 621, p. 629, p. 631, p. 709.
• Fishery bulletin / U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service: url p. 185, p. 194, p. 211.
• Fishes, New York, H. Holt and Company, 1907. url .
• Fishes, by David Starr Jordan. .. with 18 colored plates and 673 illustrations. .. New York, H. Holt and Company, 1907. url p. 563.
• General embryological information service. Utrecht, Hubrecht Laboratory. url p. 106, p. 110, p. 48, p. 93.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 201.
• Report of the Commissioner for. .. / United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Washington: G.P.O., 1874-1905. url p. 529.
• The animal kingdom, arranged according to its organization, serving as a foundation for the natural history of animals: and an introduction to comparative anatomy / Baron Cuvier. London, G. Henderson, 1834-37. url p. 193.
• The fishes of Great Britain and Ireland. London, Williams and Norgate, 1880-1884. url , p. 28.
• The genera of fishes. ..: A contribution to the stability of scientific nomenclature / By David Starr Jordan. Stanford University, Calif.: The University, 1917-1920. url p. 175.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 17, 2007:

• FishBase, FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, National Institute of Marine Sciences and Technologies - Trawl Surveys
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity - Fish Collection
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, iziko South African Museum - Fish Collection
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle, Ichtyologie
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, MCZ Fish Collection
• Royal Ontario Museum, Fish specimens
• Senckenberg, Collection Pisces
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History
• , Fishes
• University of Navarra, Museum of Zoology, Museum of Zoology, University of Navarra

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 122095
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-22849
• Fishbase Species ID: 203
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 4490920
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 169218
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 104867

Footnotes

1. Mean = -583.850 meters (-1,915.518 feet), Standard Deviation = 872.680 based on 834 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. Frimodt, C. (1995). Multilingual illustrated guide to the world's commercial warmwater fish. Fishing News Books, Osney Mead, Oxford, England. 215 p. [back]

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