Author: Forster, 1801

Atherinomorus lacunosus Forster, 1801

Diagnosis: scales rather large. Lateral line reduced to a row of small, round pits, one on each scale. Dorsal finrays IV-VII, I-II + 9-10; anal finrays 1-11 + 12-17. Scales in longitudinal series 40. Size: to 14 cm, usually 10 12 cm.

Habital: littoral. Behaviour: small schools in shallow water (Israel). Stenohaline. Food: zooplankton, small bottom-living invertebrates (eastern Mediterranean). Reproduction: in summer (Israel).

Distribution: eastern Mediterranean, immigrant from Indian Ocean through Suez Canal.

Eggs, larvae and young stages. No data.
Otoliths (sagitta). No data.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Osteichthyes
Order Antheriniformes
Family Antherinidae
Genus Atherinomorus
Species Atherinomorus lacunosus

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Atherinomorus lacunosus (Forster, 1801)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Atherinomorus lacunosus Forster, 1801

Synonyms:

Pranesus pinguis Lacepède, 1803
Atherina pinguis Lacepède, 1803, Hist. nat. Poiss., 5: 372, pl. 11 (fig. 1) (île Maurice). Type: lost.
Atherina pectoralis Valenciennes, 1835, in Cuv. Val., Hist. nat. Poiss., 10: 447. Syntypes: MNHN no. A 962 (Red Sea), A 4395 (Suez).
Atherina forskalii Rüppell, 1835a, Fische des Rothen Meeres, pl. 33 (fig. 1) (Red Sea).
Atherina pinguis: Klunzinger, 1884: 130, pl. 11 (fig. 2).
Atherina forskalii: Klunzinger, 1884, 130, pl. 11 (fig. 3) Jordan & Hubbs, 1917: 462, pl. 46 Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir, 1955: 196.
Hepsetia pinguis: Jordan & Hubbs, 1919: 32 Gruvel & Chabanaud, 1937: 11 Ben-Tuvia, 1953a: 16, fig. 9.
Alanetta forskali: Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia, 1955: 5.
Pranesus pinguis: Smith, 1965: 616, pl. 99 (fig. A, B, C).


Common names:

'Abou zoubara' and 'Cachcouch', given by Gruvel & Chabanaud in the Suez Canal.

*Lacepède, B. 1798-1803. Histoire naturelle des Poissons, 5 vol. in-4, Paris. I: 1798, 8 + cxlvii + 532 p., 25 pl., 1 tabl. (inset); II: 1800, Ixiv + 632 p., 20 pl.; III: 1801, 558 p., 34 pl.; IV: 1802, xliv + 728 p., 16 pl.; V: 1803, xlviii + 803 p., 21 pl.

Ben-Tuvia, A. 1955. Two Indo-Pacific fishes, Dasyatis uarnak and Upeneus rnoluccensis in the eastern Mediterranean. Nature, Lond., 176 (4494): 1177-1178.

Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. 1828-1849. Histoire naturelle des Poissons, Paris-Strasbourg, 22 vol., 11030 p., 621 pl. (numb. 1-650).1,1828: xvi + 573 p., pl. I-VIII [author: Cuvier]; 2, 1828: xxi + 490 p., pl. 9-40 [Cuv.:1-238, 249-262, 387-490; Val.: 238-249, 262-386]; 3 April 1829: xxiii+500p., pl. 41-71 [Cuvier]; 4,1829: xxvi+518 p., pl. 72-99 [Cuvier]; 5, 1830: xxviii + 499 p., pl. 100-140 [Cuvier]; 6, 1830: xxiv + 559 p., pl. 141-169 [Val.: 1-425, 493-559; Cuv.: 426-491]; 7, 1831: xxix + 531 p., pl. 170-208 [Cuv.: 1-440; Val.: 441-531]; 8, 1832: xix + 509 p., pl. 209-245 [Cuv.: 1-470; Val.: 471-509]; 9, 1833: xxix + 512 p., pl. 246-279 [Cuv.: 1-198, 330-359, 372-427; Val.: 199-329, 359-371, 429-512]; 10, 1835: xxiv + 482 p., pl. 280-306 [Val.]; 11, 1836: xx + 506 p., pl. 307-343 [Val.]; 12, 1837: xxix + 507 p., pl. 344-368 [Val.]; 13, 1839: xix + 505 p., pl. 369-388 [Val.]; 14, 1840: xxii + 464 p., pl. 389-420 [Val.]; 15, 1840: xxi + 540 p., pl. 421-455 [Val.]; 16, 1842: xx + 472 p., pl. 456-487 [Val.]; 17, 1844: xxiii + 497 p., pl. 487-519 [Val.]; 18, 1846: xix + 505 p., pl. 520-553 [Val.]; 19, 1847: xix + 544 p., pl. 554-590 [Val.]; 20, 1847: xviii + 472 p., pl. 591-606 [Val.]; 21, 1848: xiv + 536 p., pl. 607-633 [Val.]; 22, 1849: xx + 532 p., pl. 634650 [Val.].

Gruvel, A.; Chabanaud, P. 1937. Missions A. Gruvel dans le canal de Suez. II. Poissons. Mém. Inst. Égypt., 35: 1-30., 29 fig.

Jordan, D. S.; Hubbs, C. L. 1917. Notes on a Collection of Fishes from Port Said, Egypt. Ann. Carneg. Mus., 11: 461-468.

Jordan, D. S.; Hubbs, C. L. 1919. A monographic review of the family of Atherinidae or Silversides. Stanford Univ. Publs., Biol. Sci., 87 p., 12 pl.

Klunzinger, C. B. 1884. Die Fische des Rothen Meeres. Eine kritische Revision mit BestimmungsTabellen. I. Acanthopteri veri. Stuttgart: 133 p., fig., 13 pl.

Roux-Estève, R.; Fourmanoir, P. 1955. Poissons in Résultats scientifiques des campagnes de la 'Calypso'. Campagne 1951-52 en Mer Rouge. Annls Inst. océanogr. Monaco, 30: 195-203, 2 fig.

Rüppell, E. 1835a. Fische des rothen Meeres, (4): 148 p., 33 pl., in Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehörig. Frankfurt am Main, 1835-1840.

Smith, J. L. B. 1965b. Fishes of the Family Atherinidae of the Red Sea and the Western Indian Ocean. Ichthyol. Bull. Rhodes Univ., (31): 615.

Steinitz, H.; Ben-Tuvia, A. 1955. Fishes from Eylath (Gulf of Agaba), Red Sea. 2nd Rep. Bull. Sea Fish. Res. Stn Israel, (11): 3-15.

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