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Chanos chanos chanos (Fabricius 1775
Description
Chanos chanos (Fabricius, 1775).
Milkfish. To 180 cm (70.9 in) TL (Whitehead in Fischer et al. 1995). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002); San Pedro, southern California (Duffy and Bernard 1985) to Callao, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Marine, brackish, and fresh waters (Fricke et al. 2011); depth: 0–20 m (66 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2008; max.: Mundy 2005).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Chanidae
- Genus
- Chanos
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Gonorynchiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- chanos (Fabricius
- Species
- chanos
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chanos chanos (Fabricius, 1775 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Duffy, J. M. & Bernard, H. J. (1985) Milkfish, Chanos chanos (Forsskal, 1775), taken in southern California adds new family (Chanidae) to the California marine fauna. California Fish and Game, 71, 122 - 125.
- 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.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Fricke, R., Kulbicki, M. & Wantiez, L. (2011) Checklist of the fishes of New Caledonia, and their distribution in the southwest Pacific Ocean (Pisces). Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde A, NS 4, 341 - 463.
- 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.
- Mundy, B. C. (2005) Checklist of the Fishes of the Hawaiian Archipelago. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu.