MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Dibranchus atlanticus Peters, 1876

WoRMS taxon details

Dibranchus atlanticus Peters, 1876

$To FishBase images (<i>Dibranchus atlanticus</i>, by NOAA\NMFS\Mississippi Laboratory)$

To FishBase images (Dibranchus atlanticus, by NOAA\NMFS\Mississippi Laboratory)

AphiaID

126558 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126558)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Dibranchus Peters, 1876

Original name

Dibranchus atlanticus Peters, 1876

Synonymised names

Halieutaea senticosa Goode, 1881 · unaccepted

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Peters, W. (C. H.). (1876). Über eine neue, mit Halieutaea verwandte Fischgattung, Dibranchus, aus dem atlantischen Ocean. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1875. : 736-742, 1 pl. [details]

Descriptive notes

Distribution Atlantic: coasts of Canada and United States, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, and the coast of South America to Rio de Janeiro,...

Distribution Atlantic: coasts of Canada and United States, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, and the coast of South America to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; in the east, from the Gulf of Guinea to Angola [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Dibranchus atlanticus Peters, 1876. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126558 on 2025-05-28

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2008-01-15 17:27:08Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description Peters, W. (C. H.). (1876). Über eine neue, mit Halieutaea verwandte Fischgattung, Dibranchus, aus dem atlantischen Ocean. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1875. : 736-742, 1 pl. [details]

basis of record van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details]

Ecology

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]

Other

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

additional source Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. No. 219. 731 pp. [details]

additional source Welshman, D.; Kohler, S; Black, J.; and L. Van Guelpen. (2003). An atlas of distributions of Canadian Atlantic fishes. , available online at http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/FishAtlas/default.htm [details]

additional source McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]

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