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Uraspis helvola

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Description

Uraspis helvola (Forster, 1801).

Cottonmouth Jack, Whitemouth Jack, or Whitetongue Jack. To 58 cm (22.8 in) TL (Jiménez Prado and Béarez 2004). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to perhaps southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh and Shevtsov 2001), and southern Japan (Senou in Nakabo 2002) (although these may be Uraspis secunda (Poey, 1860); Santa Catalina Island, southern California (Miller and Lea 1972); southernmost Gulf of California (John Snow, pers. comm. to M.L.), and at a number of more southerly locations (Robertson and Allen 2008) to Ecuador (Béarez 1996), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Depth: surface (under drifting material) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 10–300 m (33–984 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002). The Santa Catalina Island specimen was originally identified as Uraspis secunda (Poey 1860) (Fitch 1972). However, U. secunda appears to be an Atlantic and Indo-Central Pacific species (William Smith-Vaniz and Ross Robertson, pers. comm. to M.L.).

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

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FF0AFF2E98EAFD7DFF3A33E8

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF87FFAEFF91FFB5987DFFF2FA413005 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03BE87D6FF0AFF2E98EAFD7DFF3A33E8 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/191883936 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/2792/taxon/03BE87D6FF0AFF2E98EAFD7DFF3A33E8.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Carangidae
Genus
Uraspis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Perciformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Forster
Species
helvola
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Uraspis helvola (Forster, 1801) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021

References

  • Jimenez Prado, P. & Bearez, P. (2004) Peces marinos del Ecuador continental / marine fishes of continental Ecuador. SIMBIOE / NAZCA / IFEA TOMO II, Quito.
  • Savinykh, V. F. & Shevtsov, G. A. (2001) Two new species from Russian fauna from the waters of the southern Kuril Islands. Journal of Ichthyology, 41, 122 - 124.
  • Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
  • Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
  • 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.
  • Bearez, P. (1996) Lista de los peces marinos del Ecuador continental. Revista de Biologia Tropical, 44, 731 - 741.
  • Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
  • Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
  • Fitch, J. E. (1972) The cottonmouth jack, Uraspis secunda, added to the marine fauna of California. California Fish and Game, 58, 245 - 246.