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Naucrates ductor
Description
Naucrates ductor (Linnaeus, 1758).
Pilotfish. To 70 cm (27.6 in) TL (Smith-Vaniz in Fischer et al. 1995). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Senou in Nakabo 2002) and southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh 1998); Vancouver Island, British Columbia (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) to Chile (Pequeño 1989), including Gulf of California (Smith-Vaniz in Fischer et al. 1995) and such offshore islands as Islas Galápagos (Miller and Lea 1972). Depth: surface to 430 m (1,410 ft) (Roberts et al. 2015).
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 154, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Carangidae
- Genus
- Naucrates
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- ductor
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Naucrates ductor (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Savinykh, V. F. (1998) Nekton composition of near-surface waters of the subarctic front zone in the northwest part of the Pacific Ocean according to the data of drift-net catches. Journal of Ichthyology, 38, 18 - 27.
- Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
- Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- Roberts, C. D., Stewart, A. L. & Struthers, C. D. (Eds.). (2015) The Fishes of New Zealand. Te Papa Press, Wellington.