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Stromateus fiatola Linnaeus 1758
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Stromateus fiatola Linnaeus, 1758
Reference material. Accra, May 1938 (Irvine 78)— BMNH 1930.8.26.68 (one: 281 mm SL).
Distribution. Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic from Morocco to South Africa (Quéro et al., 1990).
On average about 400 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making it a significant fishery species.
Notes
Published as part of Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C. & Abohweyere, P. O., 2003, A revision of F. R. Irvine's Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London, pp. 2213-2267 in Journal of Natural History 37 (18) on page 2255, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, http://zenodo.org/record/5263410
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.1080/00222930210138359 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5263410 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFC521730969C10E3C7BFF9DFF8C2910 (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03FC590B0942C1253E2EFF28FC1C288C (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BMNH
- Material sample ID
- BMNH 1930.8
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Stromateidae
- Genus
- Stromateus
- Species
- fiatola
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Stromateus fiatola Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Edwards, Gill & Abohweyere, 2003
References
- Four species are likely to be found in the Gulf of Guinea (Shipp, 1981) and two were recorded by Irvine from Ghana. On average about 75 tonnes of triggerfishes are reported to be caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000).