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Heterodontus mexicanus Taylor & Castro-Aguirre 1972
Description
Heterodontus mexicanus Taylor & Castro-Aguirre, 1972.
Mexican Horn Shark. To about 100 cm (39.4 in) TL (Ramírez-Amaro et al. 2013). De La Cruz-Agüero et al. (1997) list the maximum length as much larger, 1.7 m TL (5.6 ft). Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California (De La Cruz-Agüero et al. 1994), into the Gulf of California (Compagno 1984), and possibly to northern Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 67 m (218 ft) (min.: Pollom et al. 2020c; max.: Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California); reports to 250 m (820 ft) (Pollom et al. 2020c) are undocumented.
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 13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Heterodontidae
- Genus
- Heterodontus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Heterodontiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Taylor & Castro-Aguirre
- Species
- mexicanus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Heterodontus mexicanus Taylor, 1972 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Ramirez-Amaro, S. R., Cartamil, D., Galvan-Magana, F., Gonzalez-Barba, G., Graham, J. B., Carrera-Fernandex, M., Escobar- Sanchez, O., Sosa-Nishizaki, O. & Rochin-Alamillo, A. (2013) The artisanal elasmobranch fishery of the Pacific Coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico, management implications. Scientia Marina, 77, 473 - 487. https: // doi. org / 10.3989 / scimar. 03817.05 a
- De La Cruz-Aguero, J., Martinez, M. A., Cota-Gomez, V. M. & De La Cruz-Aguero, G. (1997) Catalogo de los Peces Marinos de Baja California Sur. Centro Interdiscipinario de Ciencias Marinas.
- De La Cruz-Aguero, J., Galvan-Magana, F., Abitia-Cardenas, L. A., Rodriguez-Romero, J. & Gutierrez-Sanchez, F. J. (1994) Systematic list of marine fishes from Bahia Magdalena, Baja California Sur (Mexico). Ciencias Marinas, 20, 17 - 31.
- Compagno, L. J. V. (1984) FAO Species Catalogue. Volume 4. Sharks of the World. Part 1. Hexanchiformes to Lamniformes. Part 2. Carcharhiniformes. FAO Fisheries Synopsis, No. 125, Volume 4, Parts 1 and 2. FAO, Rome.
- 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.
- Pollom, R., Avalos, C., Bizzarro, J., Burgos-Vazquez, M. I., Cevallos, A., Gonzalez, A., Herman, K., Mejia-Falla, P. A., Morales- Saldana, J. M., Navia, A. F., Perez Jimenez, J. C. & Sosa-Nishizaki, O. (2020 c) Heterodontus mexicanus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020, e. T 60235 A 124454650. https: // doi. org / 10.2305 / iucn. uk. 2020 - 3. rlts. t 60235 a 124454650. en