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Opisthopterus dovii
Description
Opisthopterus dovii (Günther, 1868).
Dove’s Longfin Herring or Pacific Longfin Herring. To 23 cm (9.1 in) (Robertson and Allen 2008). Punta Marquez, southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Punta Malpelo, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Allen and Robertson 1994). Inshore waters and estuaries (Allen and Robertson 1994); depth: intertidal to 37 m (121 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California).
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 43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Pristigasteridae
- Genus
- Opisthopterus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Clupeiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gunther
- Species
- dovii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Opisthopterus dovii (Gunther, 1868) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2008) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 1.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa.
- 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.
- Allen, G. R. & Robertson, D. R. (1994) Fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.