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Lutjanus aratus

Description

Lutjanus aratus (Günther, 1864).

Mullet Snapper. To 99 cm (39 in) TL (Allen 1985). Punta Eugenia, southern Baja California (Gotshall 1998) to northern Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Allen 1985) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997) and other offshore islands (Robertson and Allen 2002). Depth: intertidal to 80 m (262 ft) (min.: Weaver 1970; max.: Sánchez-Jiménez et al. 2018).

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

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References

  • Allen, G. R. (1985) FAO species catalogue. Volume 6. Snappers of the world. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, Volume 6. FAO, Rome.
  • Gotshall, D. W. (1998) Sea of Cortez Marine Animals: A Guide to the Common Fishes and Invertebrates - Baja California to Panama. Sea Challengers, Monterey, California.
  • Chirichigno, F. N. & Velez D, J. (1998) Clave para identificaticar los peces marinos del Peru (segunda edicion, revisada y actualizada). Instituto de Mar de Peru Publicacion Especial.
  • 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.
  • Weaver, P. L. (1970) Species diversity and ecology of tide pool fishes in three Pacific coastal areas of Costa Rica. Revista de Biologia Tropical, 17, 165 - 185.
  • Sanchez-Jimenez, A., Naranjo-Elizondo, B., Rodriguez-Arrieta, A., Quesada, A., Blum, S., McCosker, J. E., Robertson, D. R., Auster, P. J. & Cortes, J. (2018) Updated catalogue of bony fishes observed in deep waters at Isla del Coco National Park and Las Gemelas Seamount, Costa Rica (Eastern Tropical Pacific). Revista de Biologia Tropical, 66, (Supplement 5), S 1 - S 113. https: // doi. org / 10.15517 / rbt. v 66 i 5.34943