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Tylosurus pacificus
Description
Tylosurus pacificus (Steindachner, 1876).
Pacific Agujón. To 130 cm (51.8 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Punta San Juanico (26°53’N, 112°17’W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California), and Gulf of California to Cabo Blanco, Peru, including one record from Islas Galápagos (Collette and Banford 2001). Surface to 10 m (33 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002). Previously known in the eastern North Pacific as Tylosurus acus (Lacepède, 1803) or T. acus imperiali s (Lacepède, 1803); Collette and Banford (2001) confirmed full species rank as T. pacificus.
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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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Belonidae
- Genus
- Tylosurus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Beloniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Steindachner
- Species
- pacificus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Tylosurus pacificus (Steindachner, 1876) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Collette, B. B. & Banford, H. M. (2001) Status of the eastern Pacific agujon needlefish Tylosurus pacificus (Steindachner, 1876) (Beloniformes: Belonidae). Revista de Biologia Tropical, 49 Supplement 1, 51 - 57.