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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).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Coryphaenidae
- Genus
- Coryphaena
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- hippurus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Coryphaena hippurus Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
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