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Dermatolepis dermatolepis dermatolepis (Boulenger 1895

Description

Dermatolepis dermatolepis (Boulenger, 1895).

Leather Bass. To 1 m (39.4 in) TL (Allen and Robertson 1994). El Segundo, southern California (Moore 1991) to northern Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), and such offshore islands as Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 2–90 m (8–295 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Sánchez-Jiménez et al. 2018).

Notes

Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 146, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Allen, G. R. & Robertson, D. R. (1994) Fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.
  • Moore, R. H. (1991) First record of the leather bass (Epinephelus dermatolepis, Boulenger) in southern California. California Fish and Game, 77, 145 - 147.
  • Chirichigno, F. N. & Velez D, J. (1998) Clave para identificaticar los peces marinos del Peru (segunda edicion, revisada y actualizada). Instituto de Mar de Peru Publicacion Especial.
  • Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
  • Sanchez-Jimenez, A., Naranjo-Elizondo, B., Rodriguez-Arrieta, A., Quesada, A., Blum, S., McCosker, J. E., Robertson, D. R., Auster, P. J. & Cortes, J. (2018) Updated catalogue of bony fishes observed in deep waters at Isla del Coco National Park and Las Gemelas Seamount, Costa Rica (Eastern Tropical Pacific). Revista de Biologia Tropical, 66, (Supplement 5), S 1 - S 113. https: // doi. org / 10.15517 / rbt. v 66 i 5.34943