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Astroscopus zephyreus Gilbert & Starks 1897
Description
Astroscopus zephyreus Gilbert & Starks, 1897.
Electric Stargazer, Pacific Stargazer, or Zephyr Stargazer. To 56 cm (22 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2015). Huntington Beach, southern California (Personal commication: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium Fish Collection, San Pedro, California) to Chimbote, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Jesus-Roldan et al. 1993). Benthic; depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 1–385 m (4–1,263 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Robertson and Allen 2002).
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 193, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Uranoscopidae
- Genus
- Astroscopus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gilbert & Starks
- Species
- zephyreus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Astroscopus zephyreus Gilbert, 1897 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Robertson, D. R. and Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 2.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa. http: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages
- 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.
- Jesus-Roldan, M. de., Ellis, L. & Magana, F. G. (1993) Geographical and size records of the electric stargazer (Astroscopus zephyreus) Gilbert and Starks, 1896 (Pisces: Uranoscopidae). California Fish and Game, 79, 171 - 172.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.