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Remora brachyptera
Description
Remora brachyptera (Lowe, 1839).
Spearfish Remora. To 50 cm (19.7 in) TL (Jiménez Prado and Béarez 2004). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh 1998); San Diego County (32°52’N, 117°17’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), southern California to Chile (Miller and Lea 1972), including Gulf of California (Galván-Magaña et al. 1996), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Pelagic; depth: surface to 200 m (656 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002).
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 157, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Echeneidae
- Genus
- Remora
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Lowe
- Species
- brachyptera
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Remora brachyptera (Lowe, 1839) 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. (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.
- Galvan-Magana, F., Abitia-Cardenas, L. A., Rodriguez-Romero, J., Perez-Espana, H. & Chavez-Ramos, H. (1996) Systematic list of the fishes from Cerralvo Island, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Ciencias Marinas, 22, 295 - 311.
- 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.