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Chilomycterus reticulatus
Description
Chilomycterus reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1758).
Spotfin Burrfish or Spotted Burrfish. To about 75 cm (29.5 in) TL (Leis in Carpenter and Niem 2001). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002) and southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh 1998); San Pedro, southern California (Miller and Lea 1972) to Chile (Allen and Robertson 1994), including Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2015), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Benthic; depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) and 1–141 m (3–462 ft) (Chave and Mundy 1994).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Diodontidae
- Genus
- Chilomycterus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- reticulatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chilomycterus reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (Eds.). (2001) The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. Volume 5. Bony Fishes Part 3 (Menidae to Pomacentridae). Volime 6. Bony Fishes Part 4 (Labridae to Latimeriidae), Estuarine Crocodiles, Sea Turtles, Sea Snakes and Marine Mammals. 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.
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- Allen, G. R. & Robertson, D. R. (1994) Fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.
- 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
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Chave, E. H. & Mundy, B. C. (1994) Deep-sea benthic fish of the Hawaiian archipelago, Cross Seamount and Johnston Atoll. Pacific Science, 48, 367 - 409.