Lethrinus nebulosus

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Inhabit coral reefs, coralline lagoons , seagrass beds , mangrove swamps and coastal sand and rock areas. Adults solitary or in small schools; juveniles form large schools in shallow, sheltered sandy areas, also harbors where in seagrasses, algae or sponge habitats at various depths.

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 867 meters (0 to 2,844 feet).[1]

Biology

Diet

Feed on echinoderms , mollusks and crustaceans, and to some extent on polychaetes and fish.

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Lethrinus alboguttatus Valenciennes • Lethrinus anatarius Richardson • Lethrinus aurolineatus Macleay • Lethrinus carinatus Weber • Lethrinus centurio Valenciennes • Lethrinus choerorynchus (Bloch & Schneider • Lethrinus cyanoxanthus Richardson • Lethrinus devisianus Whitley • Lethrinus erythrurus Valenciennes • Lethrinus esculentus Valenciennes • Lethrinus fasciatus Valenciennes • Lethrinus fraenatus Valenciennes • Lethrinus frenatus Valenciennes • Lethrinus gothofredi Valenciennes • Lethrinus guentheri Bleeker • Lethrinus harak< /i> (Forssk�l • Lethrinus karwa Valenciennes • Lethrinus korely Valenciennes • Lethrinus maculatus Valenciennes • Lethrinus perselectus Whitley • Lethrinus scoparius Gilchrist & Thompson • Sciaena nebulosa Forsskål • Sparus choerorynchus Bloch & Schneider

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 05-Jul-1993

Similar Species

Members of the genus Lethrinus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 37 species and subspecies in this genus:

L. amboinensis (Ambon Emperor) · L. atkinsoni (Pacific Yellowtail Emperor) · L. atlanticus (Atlantic Electric Ray) · L. borbonicus (Snubnose Emperor) · L. chrysostomus (Redmouthed Emperor) · L. cocosensis (Smith's Pigface Bream) · L. conchyliatus (Smith's Pigface Bream) · L. crocineus (Yellowtail Damselfish) · L. enigmaticus (Blackened Butterflyfish) · L. erythracanthus (Yellow-Spotted Chromis) · L. erythropterus (Tail-Saddled Emperor) · L. flavescens (Redfinned Emperor) · L. genivittatus (Lancer) · L. haematopterus (Japanese Scavenger) · L. harak (Black-Blotch Emperor) · L. haematopterus (Yelowspotted Emperor) · L. laticaudis (Brown Kelp-Fish) · L. lentjan (Bridled Pigface-Bream) · L. mahsena (Cutthroat Emperor) · L. mahseng (Kafue Killifish) · L. microdon (Longface Emperor) · L. miniatus (Emperor) · L. nebulosus (Blue Emperor) · L. nematacanthus (Lancer) · L. obsoletus (Orange Striped Emperor) · L. olivaceus (Pig Face Bream Emperor) · L. ornatus (Yellow-Striped Emperor) · L. punctulatus (Australian Devilray) · L. ramak (Yellowbanded Pigface Bream) · L. ravus (Drab Emperor) · L. reticulatus (Redsnout Emperor) · L. rubrioperculatus (Scarlet-Cheek Emperor) · L. semicinctus (Black Blotch Emperor) · L. striatus (Klunzinger's Emperor) · L. variegatus (Scavenger) · L. xanthochilus (Klunzinger´s Emperor) · L. olivaceus (Docked Snailfish)

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Further Reading

• An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Chagos Archipelago, Central Indian Ocean / Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1989. url p. 39.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url , p. 33, p. 34, p. 35, p. 443, p. 454, p. 527, p. 527, p. 554, p. 554.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 231.
• Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Washington, D.C.: Govt. Print. Off., 1905-1950. url p. 270.
• California fish and game. [San Francisco, etc.]: State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game. url p. 62.
• Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum / by Albert Gu?nther. .. [Tokyo?]: Kagaku Kisho Hakkokai, Sho?wa 13 [1938]. url p. 460.
• Catalogue of the fishes in the. .. Museum / by A. Günther 1859. url p. 460.
• Commercial fisheries review. [Washington]: National Marine Fisheries Service; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.] url p. 78.
• Dean bibliography of fishes. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1971-1973. url p. 252, p. 752.
• Fishery bulletin / U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service: url , p. 75, p. 77, p. 78, p. 81, p. 82, p. 83.
• Fishes of Zanzibar: Acanthopterygii / by R. Lambert Playfair; Pharyngognathi etc. / by Albert C. L. G. Günther. London: J. Van Voorst, 1866. url p. 145, p. 45.
• Handbook of zoology / by J. van der Hoeven. Cambridge: University Press, 1856-1858. url p. 173.
• Handbook of zoology; by J. van der Hoeven. Tr. from the 2d Dutch ed. by the Rev. William Clark. Cambridge: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1856-58. url p. 173.
• Index to volume I, numbers 1 to 17. 1 1900 Chicago: Field Columbian Museum, 1900. url p. 319.
• List of fishes and reptiles obtained by Field Columbian Museum East African expedition to Somali-land in 1896, by S. E. Meek. 1 1897 Chicago, 1897 url p. 168.
• Malayan fishes / by C. N. Maxwell. Singapore: Methodist Pub. House, 1921. url p. 95.
• Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. Brisbane, Queensland Museum, 1912- url p. 163, p. 164.
• Notes on the pearl and chank fisheries and marine fauna of the Gulf of Manaar / by Edgar Thurston. Madras: Printed by the Supt., Govt. Press, 1890. url p. 53.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url p. 16, p. 29, p. 46.
• Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. London: Academic Press, [etc.], 1833-1965. url p. 854.
• Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76: under the command of Captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S. and Captain Frank Turle Thomson, R.N. / prepared under the superintendence of Sir C. Wyville Thomson. Edinburgh: Neill, 1880-1895. url p. 34, p. 39.
• The fishes of India: being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma and Ceylon / by Francis Day. London: B. Quaritch, [1875]-1878. url p. 134, p. 136.
• The fishes of India; being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma, and Ceylon. London, B. Quaritch, 1878-88. url .
• The fishes of Samoa. Description of the species found in the Archipelago, with a provisional check-list of the fishes of Oceania. [By David Starr Jordan and Alvin Seale]. .. 1906 Washington, Government print off., 1906. url p. 270.
• The fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. .. by Dr. Max Weber. .. and Dr. L.F. de Beaufort. Leiden, E.J. Brill, Ltd., 1911- url p. 235, p. 236.

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 & 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 15, 2012.
• FishBase 2006.
• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed June 01, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• 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 November 15, 2007:

• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, AIMS - Baited Remote Underwater Video Station
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Bureau of Rural Sciences National commercial fisheries half-degree data set 2000-2002
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, CSIRO Marine Data Warehouse
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Marine and Coastal Management - Linefish Dataset
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Marine and Coastal Management - Linefish Dataset
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Marine and Coastal Management - Linefish Dataset
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Marine and Coastal Management - Linefish Dataset
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Marine and Coastal Management - Linefish Dataset
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Marine and Coastal Management - Linefish Dataset
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Marine and Coastal Management - Linefish Dataset
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Marine and Coastal Management - Linefish Dataset
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Marine and Coastal Management - Linefish Dataset
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Marine and Coastal Management - Linefish Dataset
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Marine and Coastal Management - Linefish Dataset
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Marine and Coastal Management - Linefish Dataset
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Marine and Coastal Management - Linefish Dataset
• 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
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Vertebrate specimens
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle, Ichtyologie
• OZCAM
• Provider, Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
• Royal Ontario Museum, Fish specimens
• Senckenberg, Collection Pisces
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History
• , Fishes

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3864142
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-23592
• Fishbase Species ID: 1846
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13537041
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 169143
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 115245

Footnotes

1. Mean = 45.640 meters (149.738 feet), Standard Deviation = 588.780 based on 951 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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