Atlantic Pricklefish
Howella atlantica Post & Quéro, 1991
First described in: Post, A.; Quéro, J.-C. (1991). Distribution et taxinomie des Howella (Perciformes, Percichthyidae) de l'Atlantique. <em>Cybium.</em> 15 (2): 111-128. [English abstract.].
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Post & Quéro (1991) reviewed the species Howella brodiei Ogilby, 1899, and demonstrated the existence of two subspecies: H. brodiei atlantica (Post & Quéro, 1991) from the North and tropical Atlantic and H. brodiei brodiei Ogilby, 1899 from the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The authors also showed that the number of scales between the origin of the second dorsal fin and the lateral line separates the Atlantic populations of Howella into two different species: Howella brodiei atlantica and Howella sherborni (Norman, 1930). Eschmeyer (2013) raised the subspecies Howella brodiei atlantica (Post & Quéro, 1991) to species level: Howella atlantica (Post & Quéro, 1991). The records of H. brodiei in the northeast Atlantic should probably be considered as belonging to H. atlantica.
Updated checklist of marine fishes (Chordata: Craniata) from Portugal and the proposed extension of the Portuguese continental shelf
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Howella atlantica in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 8311852.