Megalops Lacepède, 1803
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- GENUS
- Published in
- Lacepède, B.G.E. (1803). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome Cinquieme. 5(1-21): i-lxviii + 1-803 + index.
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- order
- Elopiformes
- family
- Megalopidae
- genus
- Megalops
Name
- Synonyms
- Brisbania Castelnau, 1878
- Magalops
- Tarpon Jordan & Evermann, 1896
- Homonyms
- Megalops Lacepède, 1803
- Megalops Hallowell, 1860
- Megalops H.Milne Edwards, 1837
- Megalops Erichson, 1839
- Megalops Dejean, 1833
- Megalops Leach, 1814
- Common names
- tarpons in English
- イセゴイ属 in Japanese
Bibliographic References
- Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes, 2003: null. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada.
- Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (online version), 2012 version.
- Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (online version), 2012 version.
- Eschmeyer, William N., 1990: null. Genera of Recent Fishes. iii + 697.
- Eschmeyer, William N., ed., 1998: Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. 2905.
- FishBase
- Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2022). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2022.
- Hist. Nat. Poiss., 5
- Lacepède, B.G.E. (1803). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome Cinquieme. 5(1-21): i-lxviii + 1-803 + index.
- Losse, G.F. (1968). The elopoid and clupeoid fishes of East African coastal waters. JEANHS 27(2): 77-115
- Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library].
- Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library].
- Nelson, Joseph S., 1994: null. Fishes of the World, Third Edition. xvii + 600.
- SN2000/Eschmeyer, 1998
- Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. <em>Bulletins of American Paleontology.</em> 363, 1-560.
- WoRMS (Mar 2013)
- WoRMS (Mar 2013)
- van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 357-374