Lates calcarifer

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Found in coastal waters , estuaries and lagoons , in clear to turbid water[2]. A diadromous fish, inhabiting rivers before returning to the estuaries to spawn . Larvae and young juveniles live in brackish temporary swamps associated with estuaries, and older juveniles inhabit the upper reaches of rivers[3]

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 618 meters (0 to 2,028 feet).[4]

Biology

Diet

Feed on fishes and crustaceans.

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Coius vacti Hamilton • Holocentrus calcarifer • Holocentrus calcarifer Bloch • Holocentrus calcarifer Bloch, 1790 • Lateolabrax japonicus (Cuvier • Lates calcarifer (Bloch, 1790) • Lates darwiniensis Macleay • Pseudolates cavifrons Alleyne and Macleay

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 26-Jul-1994

Similar Species

Members of the genus Lates

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 13 species and subspecies in this genus:

L. angustifrons (Tanganyika Lates) · L. calcarifer (Silver Barramundi) · L. colonorum (Estuarine Perch) · L. darwiniensis (Turkana Perch) · L. japonicus (Japanese Lates) · L. longispinis (Turkana Perch) · L. macrophthalmus (Albert Lates) · L. mariae (Bigeye Lanternfish) · L. microlepis (Tanganyika Salmon) · L. niloticus (Nile Perch (FB)) · L. niloticus longispinis (Turkana Perch) · L. similis (Atlantic Goldeneye Tilefish) · L. stappersii (Sleek Lates)

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Further Reading

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Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• FishBase 2006.
• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 02, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 8 providers.
• Paxton, John (from FishBase).
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 02, 2008:

• FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
• GBIF-Sweden: Fishes (NRM)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Bureau of Rural Sciences National commercial fisheries half-degree data set 2000-2002 (OBIS Australia)
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
• National Chemical Laboratory: IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS
• OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
• Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 130310
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-22888
• Fishbase Species ID: 346
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13535947
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 167669
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 114493

Footnotes

1. Hora, S.L. and T.V.R. Pillay (1962). Handbook of fish culture in the Indo-Pacific region. FAO Fish. Biol. Tech. Pap. 14. 204 p. [back]
2. Allen, G.R. (1989). Freshwater fishes of Australia. T.F.H. Publications, Inc., Neptune City, New Jersey. [back]
3. Kailola, P.J., M.J. Williams, P.C. Stewart, R.E. Reichelt, A. McNee and C. Grieve (1993). Australian fisheries resources. Bureau of Resource Sciences, Canberra, Australia. 422 p. [back]
4. Mean = 23.530 meters (77.198 feet), Standard Deviation = 165.490 based on 419 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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