Published October 19, 2021
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Opistognathus scops
Description
* Opistognathus scops (Jenkins & Evermann, 1889).
Bullseye Jawfish. At least to 12 cm (4.7 in) (Robertson and Allen 2008). Near tip of Baja California, Gulf of California to Colombia (Robertson and Allen 2008). Benthic; depth: 1–20 m (4–66 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Robertson and Allen 2008).
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 150, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Opistognathidae
- Genus
- Opistognathus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Jenkins & Evermann
- Species
- scops
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Opistognathus scops (Jenkins, 1889) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2008) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 1.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa.