Seriola dumerili

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

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Inhabits deep seaward reefs; occasionally entering coastal bays . Small juveniles associate with floating plants or debris in oceanic and offshore waters .

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -5,383 meters (0 to -17,661 feet).[1]

Biome: Marine .

Biology

Diet

Feeds primarily on fishes such as the bigeye scad, also feeds on invertebrates [2].

Behavior

Juveniles form small schools or solitary[3].

Sound types : thumps and knocks. Sound organ: pharyngeal teeth and swim bladder.

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Caranx dumerili Risso • Regificola parilis Whitley • Seriola boscii Valenciennes • Seriola dumerilii (Risso • Seriola gigas Poey • Seriola purpurascens Temminck & Schlegel • Seriola purpurescens Temminck & Schlegel • Seriola rhombica Smith • Seriola simplex Ramsay & Ogilby • Seriola tapeinometapon Bleeker • Trachurus aliciolus Rafinesque • Trachurus fasciatus Rafinesque

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 06-Feb-1997

Similar Species

Members of the genus Seriola

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 21 species and subspecies in this genus:

S. bipinnulata (Rainbow Runner Fish) · S. boscii (Oyeye Yellowtail) · S. carpenteri (Guinean Amberjack) · S. dumeril (Purplish Amberjack) · S. dumerili (Allied Kingfish) · S. lalandi (Greater Yellowtail) · S. fasciata (Amberjack) · S. gracilis (Longfin Cigarfish) · S. hippos (Abrolhos Kingfish) · S. lalandei (California Yellowtail) · S. lalandi (Albacore) · S. lalandii (California Yellowtail) · S. lalandi dorsalis (Yellowtail) · S. lalandi lalandi (California Yellowtail) · S. nigrofasciata (Blackbanded Amberjack) · S. peruana (Darkfin Amberjack) · S. picturata (Blue Jack Mackerel) · S. proxima (Longfin Yellowtail) · S. quinqueradiata (Five-Ray Yellowtail) · S. rivoliana (Longfin Yellowtail) · S. zonata (Amberjack)

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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. 132, p. 317.
• A biological survey of the waters of Woods Hole and vicinity / By Francis B. Sumner, Raymond C. Osburn, and Leon J. Cole. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1913 url p. 166, p. 589, p. 751, p. 856.
• A catalogue of the fishes known to inhabit the waters of North America, north of the Tropic of Cancer, with notes on the species discovered in 1883 and 1884, by David Starr Jordan. Washington, Govt. print. off., 1885. url p. 71.
• A guide to the study of fishes, by David Starr Jordan. .. New York, H. Holt and Company, 1905. url p. 273.
• A list of common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. Report presented at the eighty-ninth annual meeting, Clearwater, Fla., Sept. 16-18, 1959. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1960. url p. 30.
• Allan Hancock Pacific expeditions. [Reports] Los Angeles, University of Southern California Press. url p. 30, p. 450.
• American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture, Boston, L. C. Page[c1903]. url .
• American food and game fishes: A popular account of all the species found in America north of the equator, with keys of ready identification, life histories and methods of capture New York: Doubleday, Page & co., 1902. url p. 301.
• American food and game fishes: a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture, by David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann; with photos. from life by A. Radclyffe Dugmore. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1908, c1902. url p. 301.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 444, p. 903.
• Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Washington, D.C.: Govt. Print. Off., 1905-1950. url p. 166, p. 237, p. 539.
• Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. Washington, The Commission, Govt. Print. Off. url p. 485, p. 77.
• Commercial fisheries review. [Washington]: National Marine Fisheries Service; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.] url p. 32, p. 34, p. 38, p. 50.
• Coral Reefs of the World. url p. 332.
• Dean bibliography of fishes. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1971-1973. url p. 234, p. 303, p. 709.
• FWS/0BS. [Washington]Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior. url p. 48.
• Fauna of New England, 8. List of the pisces, by William C. Kendall. Boston, Printed for the [Boston] Society [of Natural History] from the G. Saltonstall Fund, 1908. url p. 79.
• Final environmental impact statement prepared on the proposed Looe Key National Marine Sanctuary. [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Coastal Zone Management, [1980] url p. 18.
• Fisheries of Key West and the clam industry of southern Florida. By William C. Schroeder. Washington, Govt. print. off., 1924. url p. 7.
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• Fishes of the Gulf of Maine, by Henry B. Bigelow and William C. Schroeder. Washington, United States Government Printing Office, 1953. url p. 331.
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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:

• Canadian Museum of Nature, Canadian Museum of Nature Fish Collection
• 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, ECNASAP - East Coast North America Strategic Assessment
• 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, SeamountsOnline
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity - 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
• University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center, Fish Collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3864986
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-23806
• Fishbase Species ID: 1005
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13828369
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 168689
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 124749

Footnotes

1. Mean = -512.500 meters (-1,681.430 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,049.360 based on 726 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. Smith-Vaniz, W.F. (1986). Carangidae. p. 815-844. In P.J.P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen and E. Tortonese (eds.) Fishes of the north-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. UNESCO, Paris. vol. 2. [back]
3. Fischer, W., I. Sousa, C. Silva, A. de Freitas, J.M. Poutiers, W. Schneider, T.C. Borges, J.P. Feral and A. Massinga (1990). Fichas FAO de identificaçao de espécies para actividades de pesca. Guia de campo das espécies comerciais marinhas e de águas salob ... [back]

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