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Alectis ciliaris

Description

Alectis ciliaris (Bloch, 1787).

African Pompano. Possibly to 130–150 cm (50–60 in) FL (Smith-Vaniz in Fischer et al. 1995). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Senou in Nakabo 2002) and southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh 1998); eastern Pacific from Bahía Santa Maria (24°40’N, 112°11’W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Chile (Pequeño 1989), including lower Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Coastal waters; depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 1–100 m (3–328 ft) (Laboute and Grandperrin 2000).

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

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References

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  • Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
  • Savinykh, V. F. (1998) Nekton composition of near-surface waters of the subarctic front zone in the northwest part of the Pacific Ocean according to the data of drift-net catches. Journal of Ichthyology, 38, 18 - 27.
  • Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.
  • Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
  • Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
  • Laboute, P. & Grandperrin, R. (2000) Poissons de Nouvelle-Caledonie. Catharine Ledru, IRD, Noumea.