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Oligoplites altus

Description

Oligoplites altus (Günther, 1868).

Longjaw Leatherjack or Smallmouthed Leatherjack. To 57.8 cm (22.8 in) FL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Laguna San Ignacio, southern Baja California (Galván-Magaña et al. 2000) to Callao, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Smith-Vaniz in Fischer et al. 1995). Nearshore marine and estuaries (Allen and Robertson 1994), occasionally in freshwater (Argulo et al. 2020); depth: 0 to 30 m (98 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002).

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

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References

  • Galvan-Magana, F., Gutierrez-Sanchez, F., Abitia-Cardenas, L. A. & Rodriquez-Romero, J. (2000) The distribution and affinities of the shorefishes of the Baja California Sur lagoons. In: Munawar, M., Lawrence, S. G., Munawar, I. F. & Malle, D. F. (Eds.), Aquatic Ecosystems of Mexico: Status and Scope. Ecovision World Monograph Series. Backhuys Publisher, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 383 - 398.
  • Chirichigno, F. N. & Velez D, J. (1998) Clave para identificaticar los peces marinos del Peru (segunda edicion, revisada y actualizada). Instituto de Mar de Peru Publicacion Especial.
  • 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.
  • Allen, G. R. & Robertson, D. R. (1994) Fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.
  • Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.