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Lophius americanus Valenciennes, 1837

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1837). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome douzième. Suite du livre quatorzième. Gobioïdes. Livre quinzième. Acanthoptérygiens à pectorales pédiculées. v. 12, pp i-xxiv + 1-507 + 1 p., Pls. 344-368.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Lophiiformes
family
Lophiidae
genus
Lophius
species
Lophius americanus

Name

Homonyms
Lophius americanus Valenciennes, 1837
Common names
Ameerika merikurat in Estonian
American Angler in English
American Goosefish in English
American angler in English
American angler in English
American goosefish in English
Amerikanischer Seeteufel in German
Amerikansk havtaske in Danish
Amerikansk marulk in Swedish
Baudroie d'Amérique in French
Baudroie d'Amérique in French
Goosefish in English
Goosefish in English
Goosefish in English
Monkfish in English
Monkfish in English
Rana pescatrice americana in Italian
Rape americano in Spanish
Tamboril-americano in Portuguese
baudroie d'Amérique in French
monkfish in English
rape americano in Spanish
Żabnica amerykańska in Polish
Удильщик американский (=морской черт американский) in Russian
рыба-удилыцик in Russian
удильщик in Russian
черт морской in Russian
美洲鮟鱇 in language.
American angler in English
Amerikaanse zeeduivel in Dutch
Amerikanischer Seeteufel in German
baudroie d'Amérique in French
baudroie d’Amérique in French
goosefish in English
monkfish in English

Bibliographic References

  1. Caruso, John H. / Collette, Bruce B., and Grace Klein-MacPhee, eds., 2002: Goosefishes or Monkfishes: Family Lophiidae. Bigelow and Schroeder's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine, Third Edition. 264-270.
  2. Cuvier, G., and A. Valenciennes, 1837: null. Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome douzième. Suite du livre quatorzième. Gobiodes. Livre quinzième. Acanthoptérygiens à pectorales pédiculées, vol. 12. xxiv + 507.
  3. Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1837). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome douzième. Suite du livre quatorzième. Gobioïdes. Livre quinzième. Acanthoptérygiens à pectorales pédiculées. v. 12, pp i-xxiv + 1-507 + 1 p., Pls. 344-368.
  4. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024).
  5. 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. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
  6. Moore, Jon A., Karsten E. Hartel, James E. Craddock, and John K. Galbraith, 2003: An annotated list of deepwater fishes from off the New England region, with new area records. Northeastern Naturalist, vol. 10, no. 2. 159-248.
  7. Murdy, Edward O., Ray S. Birdsong, and John A. Musick, 1997: null. Fishes of Chesapeake Bay. xi + 324.
  8. Nelson, Joseph S., Edwin J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L. T. Findley, C. R. Gilbert, et al., eds., 2004: Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Sixth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 29. ix + 386.
  9. Page, Lawrence M., Katherine E. Bemis, Thomas E. Dowling, Héctor S. Espinosa-Pérez et al., 2023: Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, 8th edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 37. vii + 439.
  10. Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1980: A List of Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fourth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 12. 174.
  11. Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1991: Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fifth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 20. 183.
  12. Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. <em>Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> No. 219. 731 pp.
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