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Selar crumenophthalmus

Description

Selar crumenophthalmus (Bloch, 1793).

Bigeye Scad or Purse-eyed Scad. To 30 cm (11.8 in) (Robertson and Allen 2015); unsubstantiated to 60 cm (23.6 in) SL (Smith-Vaniz in Carpenter and De Angelis 2016) or 70 cm (27.6 in) TL (Kuiter and Tonozuka 2001). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Senou in Nakabo 2002), and Sea of Japan (Parin 2003); Palos Verdes, southern California (Love et al. 2015) to Cabo Blanco, Peru (Chirichigno 1974), including Gulf of California (Smith-Vaniz in Fischer et al. 1995) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997) and other offshore islands (Robertson and Allen 2002). Coastal waters; depth: surface to 230 m (754 ft) (min.: Laboute and Grandperrin 2000; max.: Weijerman et al. 2019). Smaller individuals associate with floating material (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California).

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

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  • Carpenter, K. E. & De Angelis, N. (Eds.). (2016) The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. Volume 2: Bivalves, Gastropods, Hagfishes, Sharks, Batoid Fishes, and Chimaeras, Volume 3: Bony Fishes Part 1 (Elopiformes to Scorpaeniformes). Volume 4: Bony Fishes Part 2 (Perciformes to Tetradontiformes) and Sea turtles. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes, Rome, FAO.
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