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Nematistius pectoralis Gill 1862

Description

Nematistius pectoralis Gill, 1862.

Roosterfish. To at least 191 cm (75.2 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2008). San Clemente, southern California (Miller and Lea 1972) to Sur de Taltal, northern Chile (Sielfeld et al. 2010), including Gulf of California and Islas Galápagos (Miller and Lea 1972). Nearshore; depth: surface (Robertson and Allen 2002), and surf zone (M.L., pers. obs.) to 62 m (203 ft) (Sepulveda et al. 2015).

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

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References

  • 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.
  • Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
  • Sielfeld, W., Laudien, J., Vargas, M. & Villegas, M. (2010) El Nino induced changes of the coastal fish fauna off northern Chile and implications for ichthyogeography. Revista de Biologia Marina Oceanografia, 45, S 1, 705 - 722. https: // doi. org / 10.4067 / s 0718 - 19572010000400014
  • Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
  • Sepulveda, C. A., Aalberts, S. A. & Bernal, D. (2015) Post-release survival and movements patterns of roosterfish (Nematistius pectoralis) off the central American coastline. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, 43, 162 - 175. https: // doi. org / 10.3856 / vol 43 - issue 1 - fulltext- 14