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Cephalopholis colonus
Description
Cephalopholis colonus (Valenciennes, 1846).
Pacific Creolefish. To 43 cm (16.9 in) TL (Prado and Béarez 2004). San Diego, southern California (Robins et al. 1991) to Islas Lobos de Afuera, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Heemstra in Fischer et al. 1995) and such offshore islands as Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Depth: surface (McCosker et al. 1997), 1–120 m (4–394 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max. Robertson and Allen 2015). Previously Paranthias colonus.
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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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Serranidae
- Genus
- Cephalopholis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Valenciennes
- Species
- colonus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cephalopholis colonus (Valenciennes, 1846) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Jimenez Prado, P. & Bearez, P. (2004) Peces marinos del Ecuador continental / marine fishes of continental Ecuador. SIMBIOE / NAZCA / IFEA TOMO II, Quito.
- Robins, C. R., Bailey, R. M., Bond, C. E., Brooker, J. R., Lachner, E. A., Lea, R. N. & Scott, W. B. (1991) Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 20.
- 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.
- 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.
- McCosker, J. E., Merlin, G., Long, D. S., Gilmore, R. G. & Villon, C. (1997) Deep slope fishes collected during the 1995 eruption of Isla Fernandina, Galapagos. Noticias de Galapagos, No. 58, 22 - 26.
- Robertson, D. R. and Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 2.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa. http: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages