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Echeneis naucrates Linnaeus 1758
Description
Echeneis naucrates Linnaeus, 1758.
Sharksucker. To 110 cm (43.3 in) TL (Lieske and Myers 2002). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Sea of Japan, off northern Hokkaido, possibly as far north as southern Kuril Islands (Parin 2003); southern California (Miller and Lea 1972) to Chile (Pequeño 1989), including Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Pelagic; marine and brackish waters (Fricke et al. 2020); depth: surface to 135 m (443 ft) (min.: Gasparini and Floeter 2001; max: 128–135 m in McLean et al. (2018); 135 m from Diane McLean, 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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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Echeneidae
- Genus
- Echeneis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- naucrates
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Echeneis naucrates Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Lieske, E. & Myers, R. (2002) Coral Reef Fishes. Revised Edition. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
- Parin, N. V. (2003) An annotated catalogue of fish-like vertebrates and fishes of the seas of Russia and adjacent countries: Part 3. Orders Perciformes (excluding suborders Gobioidei, Zoarcoidei and Stichaeoidei) and Tetraodontiformes. Journal of Ichthyology, 43, S 1 - S 40.
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & van der Laan, R. (Eds). 2020. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, Reference. Available from: http: // researcharchive. calacademy. org / research / ichthyology / catalog / fishcatmain. asp (accessed 17 April 2021).
- Gasparini, J. L. & Floeter, S. B. (2001) The shore fishes of Trindade Island, western South Atlantic. Journal of Natural History, 35, 1639 - 1656. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 002229301317092379
- McLean, D. L., Taylor, M. D., Partridge, J. C., Gibbons, B., Langlois, T. J., Malseed, B. E., Smith, L. D. & Bond, T. (2018) Fish and habitats on wellhead infrastructure on the north west shelf of Western Australia. Continental Shelf Research 164, 10 - 27. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. csr. 2018.05.007