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Coryphaena hippurus Linnaeus 1758

Description

Coryphaena hippurus Linnaeus, 1758.

Dolphinfish or Dorado. To 210 cm (82.7 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Senou in Nakabo 2002) and as far north as southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh 1998); Grays Harbor, Washington to Chile, including Islas Galápagos, and Gulf of California (Miller and Lea 1972). Depth: surface to 262 m (859 ft) (min.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983; max.: Perle et al. 2020).

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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References

  • 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.
  • Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
  • Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
  • Perle, C. R., Snyder, S., Merten, W., Simmons, M., Darcey, J., Rodriguez-Sanchez, R., O'Sullivan, J. & Ortega-Garcia, S. (2020) Dolphinfish movements in the eastern Pacific Ocean of Mexico using conventional and electronic tags. Animal Biotelemetry, 8, Number 30. https: // doi. org / 10.1186 / s 40317 - 020 - 00217 - 9