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Lutjanus argentiventris

Description

Lutjanus argentiventris (Peters, 1869).

Amarillo Snapper or Yellow Snapper. To 76 cm (29.9 in) (Jiménez Prado and Béarez 2004). Oceanside, southern California (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) to Islas Lobos de Afuera, Peru (Chirichigno 1974), including Gulf of California (Allen 1985) and Islas Galápagos (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Marine, brackish, and fresh waters (Bussing 1998, Romero-Berny 2018); depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), intertidal (juveniles) to 94 m (308 ft) (min.: Grove and Lavenberg 1997; max.: Amezcua Linares 1996).

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

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