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Gnathanodon speciosus
Description
Gnathanodon speciosus (Forsskål, 1775).
Golden Trevally or Yellow Jack. To 120 cm (47.2 in) TL (Randall 1996). Atlantic Ocean via Panama Canal (Robertson and Allen 2002); Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Senou in Nakabo 2002) and southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh 1998); Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California (De La Cruz-Agüero et al. 1994) to central Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002) to Colombia (Allen and Robertson 1994). Adults in deep lagoons and seaward reefs, juveniles among jellyfish tentacles (Watson et al. in Moser 1996); depth: surface to 176 m (577 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; max.: Weijerman et al. 2019).
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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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Carangidae
- Genus
- Gnathanodon
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Forsskal
- Species
- speciosus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Gnathanodon speciosus (Forsskal, 1775) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Randall, J. (1996) Shore Fishes of Hawaii. National World Press, Vida.
- 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.
- 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.
- De La Cruz-Aguero, J., Galvan-Magana, F., Abitia-Cardenas, L. A., Rodriguez-Romero, J. & Gutierrez-Sanchez, F. J. (1994) Systematic list of marine fishes from Bahia Magdalena, Baja California Sur (Mexico). Ciencias Marinas, 20, 17 - 31.
- Allen, G. R. & Robertson, D. R. (1994) Fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.
- Moser, H. G. (Ed.). (1996) The early stages of fishes in the California Current region. CALCOFI Atlas, No. 33.
- Weijerman, M., Gruss, A., Dove, D., Asher, J., Williams, I. D., Kelley, C. & Drazen, J. (2019) Shining a light on the composition and distribution patterns of mesophotic and subphotic fish communities in Hawai'i. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 630, 161 - 182. https: // doi. org / 10.3354 / meps 13135