Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Malacanthidae > Malacanthus > Malacanthus plumieri

Malacanthus plumieri (Whiting; Whitey; Sandfish; Sand tilefish; Sand eel; Muttonfish)

Synonyms: Coryphaena plumieri; Dikellorhynchus tropidolepis; Malacanthus trachinus; Sparus oblongus
Language: French; Mandarin Chinese; Papiamento; Portuguese; Spanish

Infraspecies

Malacanthus plumieri var. opistoculus
Malacanthus plumieri var. plumieri

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Baldwinella vivanus (Red barbier)[1]
Choneplax lata[2]
Ophiocoma echinata (black brittle star)[2]
Pronotogrammus martinicensis (Roughtongue bass)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Anisotremus surinamensis (Thicklip grunt)1
Haemulon carbonarium (Redmouth grunt)1
Halichoeres poeyi (Black-ear wrasse)1
Labrisomus nuchipinnis (Molly miller)1
Sargocentron vexillarium (Welchman)1

Predators

Lutjanus analis (Virgin snapper)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Neobenedenia melleni[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit 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.
♦ 2Food Habits of Reef Fishes of the West Indies, John E. Randall, Stud. Trop. Oceanogr. 5, 665–847 (1967)
♦ 3Gibson, 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