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Mycteroperca rosacea

Description

Mycteroperca rosacea (Streets, 1877).

Leopard Grouper. To 100 cm (39.4 in) TL (Allen and Robertson 1994). Islas Coronados (Walker et al. 2020) to Bahía Banderas, Jalisco, Mexico (Thomson et al. 1979), including Gulf of California (Heemstra in Fischer et al. 1995), and Isla Guadalupe, central Baja California (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California). Depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 1–100 m (4–328 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Aburto-Oropeza et al. 2011).

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

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References

  • Allen, G. R. & Robertson, D. R. (1994) Fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.
  • Walker, H. J. Jr., Hastings, P. A., Hyde, J. R., Lea, R. N., Snodgrass, O. E. & Bellquist, K. F. (2020) Unusual occurrences of fishes in the Southern California Current System during the warm water period of 2014 - 2018. Estuarine and Coastal Shelf Science 236. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ecss. 2020.106634
  • Thomson, D. A., Findley, L. T. & Kerstitch, A. N. (1979) Reef Fishes of the Sea of Cortez. John Wiley and Sons, New York.
  • 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.
  • Aburto-Oropeza, O., Caso, M., Erisman, B. & Ezcurra, E. (2011) Log of the Deep Sea, an Expedition to the Gulf of California. Instituto Nacional de Ecologia, University of California Mexus and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Acero, A. P. & Franke, R. (1995) Nuevos registros de peces cartilaginosos del Parque Nacional Natural Gorgona (Pacifico Colombiano). II. Rayas y descripcion de una nueva especie. In: La Isla de Gorgona, Nuevos Estudios Biologicos, Volume II. Biblioteca Jose Jeronimo Triana, Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional de Bogota, pp. 19 - 21.