Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Carangidae > Naucrates > Naucrates ductor

Naucrates ductor (Sucker; Pilot-fish; Pilotfish; Pilot fish; Pilot)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The pilot fish (Naucrates ductor) is a carnivorous fish of the trevally, or jackfish family, Carangidae. It is widely distributed and lives in warm or tropical open seas.
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Infraspecies

Scomber ductor var. ductor

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Archipelago de Colon Biosphere Reserve 34336011 Galapagos Islands, Ecuador  
Pacific Rim National Park Reserve II 137900 British Columbia, Canada
Tsitsikamma National Park II 34343 Southern Cape, South Africa  

Predators

Coryphaena hippurus (Mahi-mahi)[1]
Tetrapturus belone (Mediterranean shortbill spearfish)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ancyrocotyle bartschi[3]
Ancyrocotyle vallei[3]
Neobenedenia melleni[3]
Stephanostomum naucrotis[3]

External References

Citations

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♦ 1Olson, Robert J., and Felipe Galvan-Magana. "Food habits and consumption rates of common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) in the eastern Pacific Ocean." Fishery Bulletin 100.2 (2002): 279+. Academic OneFile. Web. 23 July 2010
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0