Chanos chanos
Creators
- 1. Ichthyology and Molecular Systematics Research Laboratory, Zoology Section, Department of Biology, School of Science, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.
- 2. Conservation Monitoring Centre, The Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature, Amman, Jordan
Description
3. Chanos chanos (Forsskål, 1775) ―Milkfish― Native
Taxonomy. Original description: Mugil chanos Fabricius,1775:74, xiv [Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Red Sea (not Mediterranean Sea); Holotype: ZMUC P17154 (dry skin)]. Synonyms: Chanos arabicus Lacepède, 1803.
Status in the Arabian Peninsula. Recorded from Saudi Arabia in original description by Forsskål (1775), subsequently reported from Oman by Esmaeili et al. (2022).
General distribution. Red Sea; Indo-Pacific: East Africa, South Africa, Seychelles, Madagascar, Mascarenes and Persian Gulf east to Hawaiian Islands, north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia, New South Wales (Australia) and Norfolk Island; eastern Pacific: southern California (U.S.A.) south to northern Peru, including Galapagos Islands (Ecuador); Mediterranean Sea immigrant. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia: coastal area of Jeddah; Oman: Wadi Hasik, Dhofar Governorate, and probably several other coastal area of the Arabian Peninsula.
Economic importance. Commercially important.
Conservation. Least Concern (LC).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ZMUC
- Family
- Chanidae
- Genus
- Chanos
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- P17154
- Order
- Gonorynchiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Forsskal
- Species
- chanos
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chanos chanos (Forsskal, 1775) sec. Esmaeili & Hamidan, 2023
References
- Esmaeili, H. R., Jufaili, S. A., Masoumi, A. H. & Zarei, F. (2022) Ichthyodiversity in southeastern Arabian Peninsula: Annotated checklist, taxonomy, short description and distribution of Inland fishes of Oman. Zootaxa, 5134 (4), 451 - 503. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5134.4.1