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Pontinus sierra
Description
Pontinus sierra (Gilbert, 1890).
Speckled Scorpionfish. To 33 cm (13 in) TL (John Snow, pers. comm. to M.L.). At least as far north as Todos Santos (23°24.6’N, 110°13.8’W), southern Baja California (John Snow, pers. comm. to M.L.) to Peru (4°55’S, 81°19’W) (Chirichigno 1974), including Gulf of California (Poss in Fischer et al. 1995). Benthic; depth: about 20 m (66 ft) (Aguilar-Palomino et al. 2001) to 351 m (1,151 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2008).
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 104, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Scorpaenidae
- Genus
- Pontinus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Scorpaeniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gilbert
- Species
- sierra
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pontinus sierra (Gilbert, 1890) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Chirichigno, F. N. (1974) Clave para identificar los peces marinos del Peru. Instituto del Mar del Peru Informe, No. 44.
- 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.
- Aguilar-Palomino, B., Perez-Reyes, C. & Galvan-Magana, F. (2001) Ictiofauna de la Bahia de Navidad, Jalisco, Mexico. Revista de Biologia Tropical, 49,173 - 190.
- 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.