Trinectes maculatus

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

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Inhabits coastal waters . Also enters fresh waters , going hundred of miles upstream .

Biome: Marine .

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Achirus fasciatus Lacepède • Pleuronectes maculatus • Pleuronectes maculatus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 • Pleuronectes maculatus Bloch and Schneider • Pleuronectes mollis Mitchill • Trinectes fasciatus (Lacepède • Trinectes maculatus • Trinectes scabra Rafinesque

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Bloch, M .E. and J.G. Schneider M.E. Blochii, systema ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. Berolini, Sumtibus Austoris Impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano Commissum: Berlin. 584 p., 1801.

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

Similar Species

Members of the genus Trinectes

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 9 species and subspecies in this genus:

T. fimbriatus (Whitespotted Sole) · T. fluviatilis (Freshwater Sole (FB)) · T. fonsecensis (Spottedfin Sole) · T. inscriptus (Scrawled Sole) · T. maculatus (Freshwater Flounder) · T. maculatus fasciatus (Hogchoker) · T. opercularis (Spottedcheek Sole (FB)) · T. paulistanus (Southern Hogchoker) · T. xanthurus (Yellow-Tail Sole)

More Info

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Further Reading

• 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. 47.
• An evaluation of Seth E. Meek's contributions to Mexican ichthyology / Robert Rush Miller. 69 1976 [Chicago]: Field Museum of Natural History, 1976. url p. 24.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 130.
• Commercial fisheries review. [Washington]: National Marine Fisheries Service; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.] url p. 111, p. 12, p. 3, p. 5.
• Current bibliography for aquatic sciences and fisheries. London, Taylor & Francis ltd. url p. 203, p. 54, p. 656.
• Dean bibliography of fishes. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1971-1973. url p. 101, p. 255, p. 259, p. 291, p. 297, p. 461, p. 477, p. 561, p. 565, p. 596, p. 665, p. 688, p. 77.
• Distribution and abundance of fishes and invertebrates in Mid- Atlantic estuaries. Silver Spring, Md.: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service, 1994- url p. 151, p. 21, p. 275, p. 4, p. 67.
• FWS/0BS. [Washington]Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior. url p. 107, p. 125, p. 310.
• Fishery bulletin / U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service: url , , p. 1328, p. 340, p. 344, p. 347, p. 359, p. 360, p. 363, p. 365, p. 391, p. 418, p. 438, p. 455, p. 455, p. 457, p. 457, p. 458, p. 459, p. 461, p. 516, p. 599, p. 94, p. 946.
• Fishery bulletin. United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, The Service, U.S. Govt Print. Off. url p. 261.
• Fishery circular / U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Fisheries. [Washington]: The Bureau, 1931-1939. url p. 210, p. 22, p. 42.
• Fishery statistics of the United States / prepared by Data Management and Statistics Division. Washington, D.C.: Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service: url p. 240, p. 258, p. 317, p. 321, p. 400, p. 433, p. 435, p. 442, p. 464, p. 465, p. 469, p. 498, p. 505, p. 517, p. 554, p. 654, p. 731.
• Fishes of the Gulf of Maine, by Henry B. Bigelow and William C. Schroeder. Washington, United States Government Printing Office, 1953. url .
• Fishes of the Pamlico-Albemarle Peninsula, N.C.: area utilization and potential impacts / Morehead City, N.C.: N.C. Dept. of Natural Resources and Community Development, Division of Marine Fisheries, [1984] url p. 45.
• Guide to marine fishes; [a new method for identification of marine fishes. New York]New York University Press[1961] url p. 277, p. 331, p. 431.
• Monitoring the marine environment of Long Island Sound at Millstone Nuclear Power Station, Waterford, Connecticut: three operational studies, 1986-1987 / [prepared by the Environmental Laboratory staff of Northeast Utilities Service Company]. Waterford, Connecticut: Northeast Utilities, [1988] url p. 265.
• NOAA technical report NMFS SSRF. Seattle, Wash.: National Marine Fisheries Service; url p. 10, p. 12, p. 86.
• National overview and evolution of NOAA's Estuarine Living Marine Resources (ELMR) Program / David M. Nelson and Mark E. Monaco. Silver Spring. Md.: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment, 2000. url p. 23.
• New Haven Harbor ecological studies summary report, 1970-1977 / prepared for the United Illuminating Company, New Haven, Connecticut by Normandeau Associates, inc., Bedford, New Hampshire; edited by Andrew J. McCusker, Weldon S. Bosworth. Bedford, N.H.: Normandeau, 1979. url p. 13.
• Ontogeny and systematics of fishes: based on an international symposium dedicated to the memory of Elbert Halvor Ahlstrom / sponsored by the National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Dept. of Commerce. [New York?]: American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, c1984. url p. 641, p. 664.
• Oxygen depletion and associated benthic mortalities in New York Bight, 1976 / editors, R. Lawrence Swanson, Carl J. Sindermann. Rockville, Md.: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; 1979. url p. 300.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 21.
• Special scientific report. Seattle, National Marine Fisheries Service; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1971. url p. 20, p. 22, p. 5, p. 6, p. 78, p. 8.
• Studies of estuarine dependence of Atlantic coastal fishes, by John Clark [and others] Washington, U.S. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.]1969. url p. 60.
• The complete aquarium book; the care and breeding of goldfish and tropical fishes, by William T. Innes. .. New York, Halcyon house[c1936] url p. 171, p. 297, p. 316.
• The ecology of delta marshes of coastal Louisiana: a community profile / by James G. Gosselink. Washington, DC: National Coastal Ecosystems Team, Division of Biological Services, Research Development, Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior: 1984. url p. 127.
• The ecology of the Apalachicola Bay system: an estuarine profile / by Robert J. Livingston (Department of Biological Science, Florida State University); prepared for National Coastal Ecosystems Team, Division of Biological Services, Research and Development, Fish an Washington, D.C.: The Service, [1984] url p. 117, p. 47, p. 61, p. 62, p. 63.
• Tulane studies in zoology and botany. 29 1994 New Orleans: Tulane University, [1968- url p. 150.
• Tulane studies in zoology. 2 1955 New Orleans: Tulane University, 1953-1968. url p. 231, p. 49, p. 90.
• Wetlands in Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland Dept. of State Planning, 1973. url .

Notes

Contributors

• American Fisheries Society. Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United states, Canada, and Mexico Sixth Edition. Special Publication 29.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 02, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 10 providers.
• Ramos, Robson T.C. (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:

• Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature Fish Collection
• Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates: Fish Collection
• FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: A Biological Survey of the Waters of Woods Hole and Vacinity
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Atlantic Reference Centre (OBIS Canada)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Canadian Museum of Nature - Fish Collection (OBIS Canada)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: NOAA HML Tidal Creek Database
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Fish Collection
• Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNPE/Coleccion Nacional de Peces
• University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center: Fish Collection
• University of Minnesota Bell Museum of Natural History: Fish specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 140341
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-25037
• Fishbase Species ID: 4260
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13758742
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 172982
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: AFCTC03010
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 14771

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