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Alphestes immaculatus Breder 1936

Description

Alphestes immaculatus Breder, 1936.

Pacific Hamlet or Pacific Mutton Hamlet. To 30 cm (11.8 in) TL (Allen and Robertson 1994). Islas San Benito and Natividad, central Baja California (Ramírez-Valdez et al. 2015); mainland Pacific Baja California as far north as Laguna de San Ignacio, southern Baja California (De La Cruz-Agüero and Cota-Gómez 1998) and Gulf of California (Allen and Robertson 1994) to Pucusana, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Depth: less than 2 m to 50 m (7–164 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Craig et al. 2011). Alphestes galapagensis Fowler, 1944 is a synonym.

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

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References

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  • Ramirez-Valdez, A., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Palacios-Salgado, D. S., Reyes-Bonilla, H., Dominguez Guerro, I., Hinojosa Arango, G., Correa S., F., Villasenor-Derbez, J. C., Cota-Nieto, J. J. & Hernadez-Velasco, A. (2015) The nearshore fishes of the Cedros Archipelago (north-eastern Pacific) and their biogeographic affinities. CalCOFI Reports, 56, 143 - 167.
  • De La Cruz-Aguero, J. & Cota-Gomez, V. M. (1998) Ichthyofauna of San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja California Sur, Mexico: new records and range extensions. Ciencias Marinas, 24, 353 - 358. https: // doi. org / 10.7773 / cm. v 24 i 3.751
  • Chirichigno, F. N. & Velez D, J. (1998) Clave para identificaticar los peces marinos del Peru (segunda edicion, revisada y actualizada). Instituto de Mar de Peru Publicacion Especial.
  • Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
  • Craig, M. T., Sadovy de Mitcheson, Y. J. & Heemstra, P. C. (2011) Groupers of the World. A Field and Market Guide. CRC Press, Boca Raton.