Platybelone argalus
Description
Platybelone argalus (Lesueur, 1821).
Keeltail Needlefish. To 50 cm (19.7 in) SL (Collette and Parin in Whitehead et al. 1986). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002); Islas San Benito (28°28’N, 115°35’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) and Bahía de Sebastian Vizcaino (28°15’N, 114°10’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), central Baja California to Chile (Pequeño 1989), including lower Gulf of California (Collette in Fischer et al. 1995) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Marine and brackish waters (Fricke et al. 2020); depth: surface to 5 m (17 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Belonidae
- Genus
- Platybelone
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Beloniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Lesueur
- Species
- argalus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Platybelone argalus (Lesueur, 1821) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Whitehead, P. J. P., Bauchot, M. - L, Hureau, J. - C, Nielsen, J. & Tortonese, E. (Eds.). (1986) Fishes of the North-Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Volumes II and III. UNESCO, Paris.
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.
- 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.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & van der Laan, R. (Eds). 2020. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, Reference. Available from: http: // researcharchive. calacademy. org / research / ichthyology / catalog / fishcatmain. asp (accessed 17 April 2021).
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.