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Centropomus nigrescens Gunther 1864
Description
Centropomus nigrescens Günther, 1864.
Black Snook. To 117 cm (46 in) TL (Bussing in Fischer et al. 1995). Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Paita, Peru (Chirichigno 1974), including lower Gulf of California (Bussing in Fischer et al. 1995). Marine, brackish, and fresh waters (Fricke et al. 2020); depth: to 25 m (82 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002). Centropomus nigrescens Günther, 1864, is an invalid name, as it is preoccupied by C. nigrescens Risso, 1810, a species in the family Moronidae (Eschmeyer 1998).
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 144, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Centropomidae
- Genus
- Centropomus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gunther
- Species
- nigrescens
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Centropomus nigrescens Gunther, 1864 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.
- Chirichigno, F. N. (1974) Clave para identificar los peces marinos del Peru. Instituto del Mar del Peru Informe, No. 44.
- 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.
- Eschmeyer, W. N. (Ed.). (1998) Catalog of Fishes. Volumes 1 and 2. Special Publication No. 1, Center for Biodiversity Research and Information. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.