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Opistognathus punctatus Peters 1869
Description
Opistognathus punctatus Peters, 1869.
Finespotted Jawfish. To 40.6 cm (16.2 in) TL (Thomson et al. 1979). Bahía San Ignacio, southern Baja California (Danemann and De La Cruz-Agüero 1993) into northern Gulf of California to Colombia (Robertson and Allen 2015). Benthic; depth: 1–24 m (4–80 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California).
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 150, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Opistognathidae
- Genus
- Opistognathus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Peters
- Species
- punctatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Opistognathus punctatus Peters, 1869 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Thomson, D. A., Findley, L. T. & Kerstitch, A. N. (1979) Reef Fishes of the Sea of Cortez. John Wiley and Sons, New York.
- Danemann, G. D. & De La Cruz-Aguero, J. (1993) Ichthyofauna of San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Ciencias Marinas, 19, 333 - 341.
- 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