Siganus fuscescens

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Inhabits algal and seagrass flats and shallow lagoon and coastal reefs[1][2]. Commonly found in large estuaries (Ref. 9002).

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -5,004 meters (0 to -16,417 feet).[3]

Biome: Marine .

Biology

Diet

Juveniles feed on filamentous algae, adults feed on leafy algae and seagrasses[1].

Behavior

Forms schools. Mainly diurnal .

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Amphacanthus albopunctatus Temminck & Schlegel • Amphacanthus aurantiacus Temminck & Schlegel • Amphacanthus concavocephalus (Paradice • Amphacanthus fuscescens (Houttuyn • Amphacanthus gymnopareius Richardson • Amphacanthus kopsii Bleeker • Amphacanthus maculosus Quoy & Gaimard • Amphacanthus margaritiferus Valenciennes • Amphacanthus nebulosus Quoy & Gaimard • Amphacanthus oramin (Non Schneider • Amphacanthus ovatus de Proc� ; • Amphacanthus siganus (Non Forssk�l • Amphacanthus siganus (non Forssk�l • Amphacanthus tumifrons Valenciennes • Centrogaster fuscescens Houttuyn • Siganus albopunctatus (Temminck & Schlegel • Siganus canaliculatus (Park • Siganus concavocephalus Paradice • Siganus consobrinus Ogilby • Siganus fuscenaus (Houttuyn • Siganus kopsii (Bleeker • Siganus margaritiferus (Valenciennes • Siganus nebulosus (Quoy & Gaimard • Siganus oramin (Non Schneider • Siganus rivulatus Forssk�l • Siganus rivulatus Forssk�l • Siganus spinus (Linnaeus • Siganus tumifrons (Valenciennes • Teuthis albopunctata (Temminck & Schlegel • Teuthis fuscescens (Houttuyn • Teuthis gibbosus De Vis • Teuthis javus (Non Linnaeus • Teuthis kopsii (Bleeker • Teuthis nebulosa (Quoy & Gaimard • Teuthis oramin (Non Schneider • Teuthis tumifrons (Valenciennes • Teuthys nebulosa (Quoy & Gaimard • Theutis margaritifera (Valenciennes

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Houttuyn, M. Het onderscheid der salamanderen van de haagdissen in 't algemeen, en van de gekkos in 't byzonder aangetoond. Venhandelingen Uitgegeven door het Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen te Vlissingen, ser. 1 , 9: 305-336., 1782.

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 30-Aug-1994

Similar Species

Members of the genus Siganus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 30 species and subspecies in this genus:

S. argenteus (Rabbitfaced Spinefoot) · S. aurolineatus (Yellowspotted Spinefish) · S. canaliculatus (Net-Pattern Spinfoot) · S. corallinus (Blue-Spotted Spinefoot) · S. doliatus (Pencil-Streaked Rabbitfish) · S. fuscescens (Doctor Fish) · S. fuscus (Bluespotted Spinefish) · S. guttatus (Deepbody Spinefoot) · S. javus (Bluespotted Spinefish) · S. labyrinthodes (Labyrinth Rabbitfish) · S. lineatus (Golden-Lined Spinefoot) · S. luridus (Squaretail Rabbitfish) · S. magnificus (Magnificent Rabbitfish) · S. niger (Black Flounder) · S. notostictus (Double-Barred Spinefoot) · S. puelloides (Black-Eyed Rabbitfish) · S. puellus (Blue-Lined Spinefoot) · S. punctatissimus (Fine-Spotted Rabbitfish) · S. punctatus (Gold-Spotted Rabbitfish) · S. randalli (Randall´s Rabbitfish) · S. rivulatus (Marbled Spinefoot) · S. spinus (Black Spinefoot) · S. stellatus (Blotched Spinefoot) · S. sutor (African Whitespotted Rabbitfish) · S. trispilos (Threeblotched Rabbitfish) · S. unimaculatus (Foxface Rabbitfish) · S. uspi (Bicolored False Moray) · S. vermiculatus (Maze Rabbitfish) · S. virgatus (Barhead Spinefoot) · S. vulpinus (Common Foxface)

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Further Reading

• A catalog of the fishes of Formosa. By David Starr Jordan and Robert Earl Richardson. Pittsburgh, Board of trustees of the Carnegie institute, 1909. url p. 198.
• A catalog of the fishes of the island of Formosa, or Taiwan: based on the collections of Dr. Hans Sauter / by David Starr Jordan and Robert Earl Richardson. Pittsburgh: Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, [1907?] url p. 198.
• A guide to the study of fishes, New York, H. Holt, 1905. url .
• A guide to the study of fishes, by David Starr Jordan. .. New York, H. Holt and Company, 1905. url p. 410.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 310, p. 311, p. 312, p. 314, p. 315, p. 650, p. 650, p. 653, p. 653.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 123.
• Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Washington, D.C.: Govt. Print. Off., 1905-1950. url p. 35, p. 35, p. 374, p. 98, p. 98.
• Camallanata of animals and man and diseases caused by them = Kamallanaty zhivotnykh i cheloveka i vyzyvaemye ime zabolevaniya / V. M. Ivashkin, A. A. Sobolev, and L. A. Khromova; translated from Russian [by Hilary Hardin]. Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 1977. url p. 158.
• Check-list of species of fishes known from the PhilippineArchipelago, by David Starr Jordan and Robert Earl Richardson. Manila: Bureau of Printing, 1910. url p. 43.
• Check-list of the species of fishes known from the Philippine Archipelago, Manila, Bureau of printing, 1910. url p. 43.
• Dangerous marine animals. Cambridge, Md., Cornell Maritime Press, 1959. url p. 144, p. 88, p. 90.
• Dean bibliography of fishes. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1971-1973. url p. 211, p. 262, p. 27, p. 315, p. 320, p. 333, p. 340, p. 591, p. 615, p. 660, p. 668, p. 688, p. 732.
• Fishes of Guam, Hawaii, Samoa, and Tahiti. Honolulu, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1925. url p. 13.
• Fishes of the Philippine Islands / by Barton Warren Evermann and Alvin Seale. Washington, D.C.: Govt. Print. Off., 1907. url , p. 98.
• Fishes of the islands of Luzon and Panay / by David Starr Jordan and Alvin Seale. Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O., 1907? url p. 35.
• Fishes, New York, H. Holt and Company, 1907. url .
• Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum. 4 1906-1911 Pittsburgh: Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901-1936. url p. 198, p. 437.
• Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. Cambridge [Mass.]: The Museum, 1876-1940. url p. 313.
• Monogenetic trematodes: their systematics and phylogeny / by Boris E. Bychowsky; edited by William J. Hargis, Jr.; translated by Pierre C. Oustinoff. Washington, D.C.: American Institute of Biological Sciences, c1961. url p. 261, p. 626.
• NOAA technical report NMFS SSRF. Seattle, Wash.: National Marine Fisheries Service; url p. 31.
• Occasional papers of Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1898-1984. url , p. 135.
• Ontogeny and systematics of fishes: based on an international symposium dedicated to the memory of Elbert Halvor Ahlstrom / sponsored by the National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Dept. of Commerce. [New York?]: American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, c1984. url p. 548.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url p. 69.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 247, p. 359, p. 360, p. 423, p. 481, p. 511, p. 560, p. 561, p. 58, p. 747.
• The Biological bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, url p. 211, p. 212.
• The Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo, Japan = Tokyo Teikoku Daigaku kiyo. Rika. Tokyo, Japan: The University, 1898-1925. url p. 13, p. 17, p. 215.
• The fishery resources of the Philippine Islands with descriptions of new species / Manila?: s.n., ca. 1909 - ca. 1912 url .
• The fishes of Samoa. Description of the species found in the Archipelago, with a provisional check-list of the fishes of Oceania. [By David Starr Jordan and Alvin Seale]. .. 1906 Washington, Government print off., 1906. url p. 360.
• The lipids, their chemistry and biochemistry. New York, Interscience Publishers, 1951-57. url p. 78, p. 84, p. 870.
• The shore fishes / by William C. Kendall and Edmund L. Goldsborough. 26 1911 Cambridge, U.S.A.: Printed for the Museum, 1911. url p. 313.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 15, 2007:

• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, AIMS - Baited Remote Underwater Video Station
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Vertebrate specimens
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle, Ichtyologie
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, MCZ Fish Collection
• National Chemical Laboratory, IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS
• OZCAM
• Provider, Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
• Royal Ontario Museum, Fish specimens
• Senckenberg, Collection Pisces

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3865019
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-25219
• Fishbase Species ID: 4616
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13299056
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 172340
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 124692

Footnotes

1. Lieske, E. and R. Myers (1994). Collins Pocket Guide. Coral reef fishes. Indo-Pacific & Caribbean including the Red Sea. Haper Collins Publishers, 400 p. [back]
2. Yamada, U., S. Shirai, T. Irie, M. Tokimura, S. Deng, Y. Zheng, C. Li, Y.U. Kim and Y.S. Kim (1995). Names and Illustrations of Fishes from the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea. Overseas Fishery Cooperation Foundation, Tokyo, Japan. [back]
3. Mean = -165.060 meters (-541.535 feet), Standard Deviation = 551.100 based on 821 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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