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Lutjanus novemfasciatus Gill 1862

Description

Lutjanus novemfasciatus Gill, 1862.

Dog Snapper or Pacific Dog Snapper. To 170 cm (67 in) TL (Allen 1985). Morro Bay, central California (Tognazzini 2003)to Puerto Pizarro, Peru (Chirichigno 1974), including throughout Gulf of California (Allen 1985), and around Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Marine, brackish, and fresh waters (Allen and Robertson 1994); depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), intertidal to 60 m (197 ft) (min.: Thomson and Lehner 1976; max.: Allen 1985).

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.
  • Tognazzini, M. T. (2003) First record of the Pacific dog snapper, Lutjanus novemfasciatus, in California. California Fish and Game, 89, 201 - 202.
  • Chirichigno, F. N. (1974) Clave para identificar los peces marinos del Peru. Instituto del Mar del Peru Informe, No. 44.
  • Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
  • Allen, G. R. & Robertson, D. R. (1994) Fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.
  • Thomson, D. A. & Lehner, C. E. (1976.) Resilience of a rocky intertidal fish community in a physically unstable environment. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 22, 1 - 29.