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Girella nigricans
Description
Girella nigricans (Ayres, 1860).
Opaleye. To 66 cm (26 in) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Otter Rock, Oregon (Bond and Olson 1985) to Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California (Miller and Lea 1972), with an isolated population in the Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002). Depth: intertidal to about 32 m (105 ft) (min.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983; max.: M.L., unpubl. data); pelagic juveniles near surface, often associated with floating material (Watson in Moser 1996). Occasionally found in estuaries (Ruiz-Campos et al. 2000).
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 168, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Kyphosidae
- Genus
- Girella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Ayres
- Species
- nigricans
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Girella nigricans (Ayres, 1860) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- 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.
- Bond, C. E. & Olson, R. E. (1985) Northward occurrence of the opaleye, Girella nigricans, and the sharpnose seaperch, Phanerodon furcatus. California Fish and Game, 71, 56 - 57.
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Moser, H. G. (Ed.). (1996) The early stages of fishes in the California Current region. CALCOFI Atlas, No. 33.
- Ruiz-Campos, G., Contreras-Balderas, S., Lozano-Vilano, M. L., Gonzalez-Guzman, S. & Alaniz-Garcia, J. (2000) Ecological and distributional status of the continental fishes of northwestern Baja California, Mexico. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 99, 59 - 90.