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Lutjanus colorado Jordan & Gilbert 1882

Description

Lutjanus colorado Jordan & Gilbert, 1882.

Colorado Snapper. To 107 cm (42.1 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Estero (Morro) Bay, central California (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) to northern Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Allen 1985). Marine, brackish, and fresh waters (Fricke et al. 2020); depth: surface to 90 m (295 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; 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

  • Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Allen, G. R. (1985) FAO species catalogue. Volume 6. Snappers of the world. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, Volume 6. FAO, Rome.
  • 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).
  • Amezcua Linares, F. (1996) Peces Demersales de la Platforma Continental del Pacifico Central de Mexico. Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.