Platax teira

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

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Juveniles inhabit shallow protected inner reefs while adults occur in lagoon and seaward reefs to a depth of 20 m or more.

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -4,805 meters (0 to -15,764 feet).[1]

Biome: Marine .

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Chaetodon teira • Chaetodon teira Forssk ål • Chaetodon teira Forsskål • Chaetodon teira Forsskål, 1775 • Platax teira • Platax teira< /i> (Forsskål • Platax teria • Platax teria Forssk ål • Platax teria Forsskål • Platax teria Forsskål, 1775 • Platax terra • Platax terra (Forsskål • Platax terra (Forsskål, 1775) • Platax terra< /i> (Forsskål • Platax tiera • Platax tiera (Forsskål • Platax tiera (Forsskål, 1775)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 30-Jan-1997

Similar Species

Members of the genus Platax

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 7 species and subspecies in this genus:

P. batavianus (Hump-Headed Spadefish) · P. boersii (Boer´s Batfish) · P. novemaculeatus (Circular Spadefish Batfish) · P. ocellatus (Sixspined Butterflyfish) · P. orbicularis (Circular Spadefish Batfish) · P. pinnatus (Batfish) · P. teira (Round Faced Batfish)

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Further Reading

• A catalog of the fishes of Formosa. By David Starr Jordan and Robert Earl Richardson. Pittsburgh, Board of trustees of the Carnegie institute, 1909. url p. 197.
• A catalog of the fishes of the island of Formosa, or Taiwan: based on the collections of Dr. Hans Sauter / by David Starr Jordan and Robert Earl Richardson. Pittsburgh: Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, [1907?] url p. 197.
• A guide to the study of fishes, New York, H. Holt, 1905. url .
• A guide to the study of fishes, by David Starr Jordan. .. New York, H. Holt and Company, 1905. url p. 401.
• A treatise on zoology London, A. and C. Black, 1900-1909 url p. 435.
• A treatise on zoology. London, Adam and Charles Black, 1900-1909 url p. 435.
• Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Madrid: La Sociedad, url p. 195, p. 25, p. 291, p. 291.
• Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Cape Town [etc., South African Museum, etc.] url p. 188, p. 205.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 18, p. 23, p. 24.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 134, p. 139, p. 140, p. 153.
• Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Washington, D.C.: Govt. Print. Off., 1905-1950. url p. 335.
• Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum / by Albert Gu?nther. .. [Tokyo?]: Kagaku Kisho Hakkokai, Sho?wa 13 [1938]. url p. 492.
• Catalogue of the fishes in the. .. Museum / by A. Günther London, 1860. url p. 492.
• Catalogue of the fishes of New South Wales, with their principal synonyms. Sydney, T. Richards, Govt. Printer, 1886. url p. 28.
• Check list of the fishes and fish-like animals of New South Wales. SydneyRoyal Zoological Society of New South Wales1922 url p. 64.
• Descriptive catalogue of the specimens of natural history in spirit contained in the Museum of the Royal college of surgeons of England. Vertebrata: Pisces, Reptilia, Aves, Mammalia. London, Taylor and Francis, 1859. url p. 37.
• Fish skulls; a study of the evolution of natural mechanisms. Laurel, Fla., E. Lundberg, 1959. url p. 275.
• Fishes of Zanzibar: Acanthopterygii / by R. Lambert Playfair; Pharyngognathi etc. / by Albert C. L. G. Günther. London: J. Van Voorst, 1866. url p. 65.
• Fishes, New York, H. Holt and Company, 1907. url .
• Handbook of zoology / by J. van der Hoeven. Cambridge: University Press, 1856-1858. url p. 169.
• 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. 169.
• Malayan fishes / Singapore: Methodist Pub. House, 1921. url .
• Malayan fishes / by C. N. Maxwell. Singapore: Methodist Pub. House, 1921. url p. 60, p. 62, p. 95.
• Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum. 4 1906-1911 Pittsburgh: Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901-1936. url p. 197, p. 265.
• Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. Brisbane, Queensland Museum, 1912- url p. 43.
• 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. 93.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 353.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url , p. 330, p. 359, p. 547.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 501, p. 526, p. 55, p. 670, p. 761.
• Record of fishes obtained in Japan in 1911, by David Starr Jordan and William Francis Thompson. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 1914 url p. 265.
• Record of the fishes obtained in Japan in 1911 / by David Starr Jordan and William Francis Thompson. Pittsburgh: Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, [1914] url p. 265.
• Report to the government of Ceylon on the pearl oyster fisheries of the gulf of Manaar, by W.A. Herdman. .. With supplementary reports upon the marine biology of Ceylon, by other naturalists. Pub. at the request of the colonial government by the Royal society. London, 1903-06. url p. 89, p. 90.
• Revue méthodique et critique des collections déposées dans cet établissement. Leyden, Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie. url p. 18.
• The Australian zoologist. Sydney, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales url p. 90.
• The Great Barrier Reef of Australia: its products and potentialities / by W. Saville-Kent; containing an account, with copious coloured and photographic illustrations. .. of the corals and coral reefs, pearl and pearl-shell, bêche-de-mer, other fishing industries, and t London: W.H. Allen, [1893?] url p. 290, p. 369.
• The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. Bombay: The Society, url p. 158, p. 508.
• The Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo, Japan = Tokyo Teikoku Daigaku kiyo. Rika. Tokyo, Japan: The University, 1898-1925. url p. 209.
• The Journal of the Linnean Society of London. London: Academic Press [etc.], 1865-1968. url p. 486.
• 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. 235, p. 236.
• 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. 335.
• 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. 113, p. 115, p. 119, p. 121, p. 304, p. 305, p. 50.

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 15, 2007:

• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, AIMS - Baited Remote Underwater Video Station
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, CSIRO Marine Data Warehouse
• 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
• National Chemical Laboratory, IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS
• OZCAM
• Provider, Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
• Royal Ontario Museum, Fish specimens
• Senckenberg, Collection Pisces

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 135466
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-25793
• Fishbase Species ID: 5739
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14386274
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 623210
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 100761

Footnotes

1. Mean = -431.620 meters (-1,416.076 feet), Standard Deviation = 942.380 based on 151 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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