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Rhacochilus vacca (Girard, 1855)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Perciformes
family
Embiotocidae
genus
Rhacochilus
species
Rhacochilus vacca

Name

Synonyms
Damalichthys argyrosomus (Girard, 1856)
Damalichthys vacca Girard, 1855
Ditrema vacca (Girard, 1855)
Embiotoca argyrosoma Girard, 1856
Phanerodon vacca (Girard, 1855)
Homonyms
Rhacochilus vacca (Girard, 1855)
Common names
mojarra muellera in Spanish
pile perch in English
Pile Perch in English
Dusky Sea-perch in English
K'aay kuul kyaadsiid in language.
Mojarra Muellera in Spanish
Perca in Spanish
Pile Seaperch in English
Pile Surfperch in English
Szumien waka in Polish
Uuusduu in language.
mojarra muellera in Spanish
perche de pilotis in French
pile perch in English

Bibliographic References

  1. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
  2. Nelson, Joseph S., Edwin J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L. T. Findley, C. R. Gilbert, et al., eds., 2004: Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Sixth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 29. ix + 386.
  3. Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1980: A List of Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fourth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 12. 174.
  4. Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1991: World Fishes Important to North Americans Exclusive of Species from the Continental Waters of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 21. 243.
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