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Lutjanus peru

Description

Lutjanus peru (Nichols & Murphy, 1922).

Pacific Red Snapper. To 99.2 cm (39 in) TL (Rocha-Olivares 1998). La Jolla, southern California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) and Bahía Santa Maria, southern Baja California (Watson and Brogan in Moser 1996) to Huermey, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Islas Galápagos (McCosker and Rosenblatt 2010), and throughout Gulf of California (Allen 1985). Depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 18 m (60 ft) to at least 91 m (300 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: John Snow, pers. comm. to M.L.).

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 159, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Rocha-Olivares, A. (1998) Age, growth, mortality, and population characteristics of the Pacific red snapper, Lutjanus peru, off the southeast coast of Baja California, Mexico. Fishery Bulletin, 96, 562 - 574.
  • Moser, H. G. (Ed.). (1996) The early stages of fishes in the California Current region. CALCOFI Atlas, No. 33.
  • 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.
  • McCosker, J. E. & Rosenblatt, R. H. (2010) The fishes of the Galapagos Archipelago: an update. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 61, Supplement II, No. 11, 167 - 195.
  • Allen, G. R. (1985) FAO species catalogue. Volume 6. Snappers of the world. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, Volume 6. FAO, Rome.