Pseudupeneus grandisquamis
Description
Pseudupeneus grandisquamis (Gill, 1863).
Bigscale Goatfish or Red Goatfish. To about 30.6 cm (12 in) TL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). San Onofre, southern California to Chile (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983), including Gulf of California (Schneider in Fischer et al. 1995) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 1–67 m (3–220 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; max.: Zeballos Flor et al. 1998). The Mulloidichthys dentatus noted from southern California (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) was based on a misidentification of P. grandisquamis (Lea and Rosenblatt 2000).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Mullidae
- Genus
- Pseudupeneus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gill
- Species
- grandisquamis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pseudupeneus grandisquamis (Gill, 1863) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- 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.
- 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.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- 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.
- Lea, R. N. & Rosenblatt, R. H. (2000) Observations on fishes associated with the 1997 - 98 El Nino off California. CalCOFI Reports, 41, 117 - 129.