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Polydactylus approximans
Description
Polydactylus approximans (Lay & Bennett, 1839).
Blue Bobo. To 40 cm (15.7 in) TL (Amezcua Linares 1996). Monterey Bay, central California (Follett 1948) to Chile (Pequeño 1989), including Gulf of California (Schneider in Fischer et al. 1995), and Islas Galápagos (Miller and Lea 1972). Inshore (Miller and Lea 1972); depth: 0–107 m (351 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; max.: Amezcua Linares 1996). In marine, brackish and fresh waters (Velasco and Thiel 2002, Argulo et al. 2020).
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 164, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Polynemidae
- Genus
- Polydactylus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Lay & Bennett
- Species
- approximans
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Polydactylus approximans (Lay, 1839) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- 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.
- Follett, W. (1948) A northerly record of Polydactylus approximans (Lay and Bennett), a polynemid fish of the Pacific Coast of tropical America. Copeia, 1948, 34 - 40.
- Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.
- Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Velasco, A. & Thiel, R. (2002) A bilingual field manual for the identification of juvenile fish over soft bottom off the Pacific Coast of Colombia a review from literature. Archive of Fishery and Marine Research, 50, 55 - 118.