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Decapterus macrosoma Bleeker 1851

Description

Decapterus macrosoma Bleeker, 1851.

Shortfin Scad. To 35 cm (13.8 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Senou in Nakabo 2002) and Cheju Island, South Korea (Kim et al. 1999); Punta Eugenia (Baja California) (Robertson and Allen 2008) to Chile (Pequeño 1989), including Gulf of California (Smith-Vaniz in Fischer et al. 1995) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication:Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 12–214 m (99–702 ft) (min.: Godínez-Domínguez et al. 2000; max.: Mundy 2005). Morera et al. (20019) report on a capture at a depth of 500 m (1,640 ft), however this capture was made in a bottom trawl and the fish may have been captured in midwaters during deployment or retrieval.

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

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References

  • Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
  • Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
  • Kim, Y. U., Kim, Y. S., Ahn, G. & Kim, J. K. (1999) New record of the two carangid fishes (Perciformes, Carangidae) from Korea. Korean Journal of Ichthyology, 11, 17 - 22.
  • 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.
  • Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.
  • 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.
  • Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
  • Godinez-Dominguez, E., Rojo-Vazquez, J., Galvan-Pina, V. & Aguilar-Palomino, B. (2000) Changes in the structure of a coastal fish assemblage exploited by a small scale gillnet fishery during an El Nino - La Nina event. Estuarine and Coastal Shelf Science, 51, 773 - 787. https: // doi. org / 10.1006 / ecss. 2000.0724
  • Mundy, B. C. (2005) Checklist of the Fishes of the Hawaiian Archipelago. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu.