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Opistognathus rhomaleus Jordan & Gilbert 1882
Description
Opistognathus rhomaleus Jordan & Gilbert, 1882.
Giant Jawfish. To more than 50.8 cm (20.3 in) TL (Thomson et al. 1979). Bahía Ballenas, southern Baja California (Watson in Moser 1996) into northern Gulf of California to west Panama (Robertson and Allen 2008), and Islas Revillagigedo. Benthic; depth: 3–70 m (10–230 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2015). The correct date for the species name is 1882 (Eschmeyer 1998), not 1881 as seen elsewhere.
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
- Jordan & Gilbert
- Species
- rhomaleus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Opistognathus rhomaleus Jordan, 1882 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.
- Moser, H. G. (Ed.). (1996) The early stages of fishes in the California Current region. CALCOFI Atlas, No. 33.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2008) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 1.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa.
- 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
- 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.