Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Gerreidae > Eucinostomus > Eucinostomus melanopterus

Eucinostomus melanopterus (Flagfin mojarra; Butterfish)

Synonyms: Eucinostomis melanopter; Eucynostomus melanopterus; Gerres bilobus; Gerres melanopterus
Language: Creole, Portuguese; Danish; Fon Gbe; Fon GBE; Fon Gbe; French; Mandarin Chinese; Polish; Portuguese; Spanish; Susu; Unknown; Wayuu; Wolof

Attributes

Migration [1]  Amphidromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Cayos Cochinos Archipelago National Park Natural Marine Monument   Honduras  
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary IV 2387149 Florida, United States

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Elops lacerta (Atlantic ladyfish)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Opechona chloroscombri[4]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Comparative analysis of trophic structure and interactions of two tropical lagoons, M.C. Villanueva, P. Lalèyè, J.-J. Albaret, R. Laë, L. Tito de Morais and J. Moreau, Ecological Modelling, Vol. 197, Issues 3-4 , 25 August 2006, P. 461-477
♦ 3Jorrit 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.
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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