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Platybelone argalus

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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).

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 96, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FFCEFFEA98EAFF64FB1531A9

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF87FFAEFF91FFB5987DFFF2FA413005 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03BE87D6FFCEFFEA98EAFF64FB1531A9 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/191882042 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/2792/taxon/03BE87D6FFCEFFEA98EAFF64FB1531A9.taxon (URL)

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.