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Gerres simillimus Regan 1907

Description

Gerres simillimus Regan, 1907.

Pacific Yellowfin Mojarra. To 47.5 cm (18.7 in) TL (Rodriquez-Romero et al. 2008). Boca Soledad (25°11’N, 112°05’W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Callao, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997), and lower two-thirds of Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002). Marine, brackish, and nearly fresh waters (Allen and Robertson 1994, Romero-Berny 2018); depth: 0.3–107 m (1–351 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Amezcua Linares 1996). Previously referred to as Gerres cinereus (Walbaum, 1792), now limited to the western Atlantic (Fricke et al. 2020).

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

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References

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