Published October 19, 2021 | Version v1
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Deckertichthys aureolus

Description

Deckertichthys aureolus (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882).

Golden Mojarra. To 20 cm (7.9 in) (Robertson and Allen 2008). Just south of Bahía San Quintin [“Santa Maria Bay ” (30°23.8’N, 115°56’W)], northern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Peru, including Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2008). Depth: 0 to 43 m (140 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2015; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). We follow Vergara-Solana et al. (2014) and remove this species from the genus Diapterus.

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

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References

  • Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2008) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 1.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa.
  • Robertson, D. R. and Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 2.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa. http: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages
  • Vergara-Solana, F. J., Garcia-Rodriguez, F. J., Tavera, J. J., De Luna, E. & De La Cruz-Aguero, J. (2014) Molecular and morphometric systematics of Diapterus (Perciformes, Gerreidae). Zoologica Scripta, 43, 338 - 350. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / zsc. 12054