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Menticirrhus nasus
Description
Menticirrhus nasus (Günther, 1868).
Highfin King Croaker or Highfin Kingfish. To 50 cm (19.7 in) TL (Allen and Robertson 1994). Laguna de San Ignacio, southern Baja California (De La Cruz-Agüero and Cota-Gómez 1998) into the Gulf of California (Chao in Fischer et al. 1995) to Caleta La Cruz, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998). Estuaries and nearshore waters (Allen and Robertson 1994); depth: 1–146 m (3–479 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; max.: Zeballos Flor et al. 1998).
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 166, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Sciaenidae
- Genus
- Menticirrhus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gunther
- Species
- nasus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Menticirrhus nasus (Gunther, 1868) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Allen, G. R. & Robertson, D. R. (1994) Fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.
- De La Cruz-Aguero, J. & Cota-Gomez, V. M. (1998) Ichthyofauna of San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja California Sur, Mexico: new records and range extensions. Ciencias Marinas, 24, 353 - 358. https: // doi. org / 10.7773 / cm. v 24 i 3.751
- 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.
- 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.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Zeballos Flor, J., Samame, M. & Romero, M. (1998) Estructura especiologica demersal observada durante el Crucero de Evaluacion de la Merluza entre Puerto Pizarro y Huarmey. Informe IMARPE, 138, 87 - 100.