Oligoplites saurus
Description
Oligoplites saurus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801).
Leatherjack, Yellowjack, or Yellowtail Leatherjack. To 45 cm (17.7 in) TL (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Atlantic and Pacific Oceans; Bahía San Juanico, southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Puerto Pizarro, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Smith-Vaniz in Fischer et al. 1995), Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997) and Isla Malpelo (Robertson and Allen 2002). Shallow coastal waters and in estuaries (Watson et al. in Moser 1996); depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), <1 m to 50 m (3–164 ft) (min.: Arceo-Carranza and Chiappa-Carrara 2015; max.: Amezcua Linares 1996); also reported from fresh water (Greenfield and Thomerson 1997). The southern California record in Miller and Lea (1972) is in error (Robert Lea, pers. comm. to M.L.).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Carangidae
- Genus
- Oligoplites
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Bloch & Schneider
- Species
- saurus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Oligoplites saurus (Bloch, 1801) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- 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.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Moser, H. G. (Ed.). (1996) The early stages of fishes in the California Current region. CALCOFI Atlas, No. 33.
- Arceo-Carranza, D. & Chiappa-Carrara, X. (2015) Feeding ecology of juvenile marine fish in a shallow coastal lagoon of southeastern Mexico. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, 43, 621 - 631. https: // doi. org / 10.3856 / vol 43 - issue 4 - fulltext- 1
- Amezcua Linares, F. (1996) Peces Demersales de la Platforma Continental del Pacifico Central de Mexico. Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
- Greenfield, D. W. & Thomerson, J. E. (1997) Fishes of the Continental Waters of Belize. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.