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Kyphosus elegans

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Description

Kyphosus elegans (Peters, 1869).

Cortez Chub or Cortez Sea Chub. To 53 cm (20.9 in) TL (Jiménez Prado and Béarez 2004).Widely found throughout Pacific (Fricke et al. 2020); western Pacific as far north as southern Japan (Fricke et al. 2020); Todos Santos (23°24.6’N, 110°13.8’W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), and in Gulf of California (Sommer in Fischer et al. 1995) to Peru (Robertson and Allen 2015), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Marine and brackish waters (Romero-Berny et al. 2021); often associates with floating material: depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), intertidal to 40 m (131 ft) (min.: Grove and Lavenberg 1997; max.: Jiménez Prado and Béarez 2004).

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

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FF39FF1D98EAFEF0FF75321C

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF87FFAEFF91FFB5987DFFF2FA413005 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03BE87D6FF39FF1D98EAFEF0FF75321C (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/191884291 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/2792/taxon/03BE87D6FF39FF1D98EAFEF0FF75321C.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Kyphosidae
Genus
Kyphosus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Perciformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Peters
Species
elegans
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Kyphosus elegans (Peters, 1869) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021

References

  • Jimenez Prado, P. & Bearez, P. (2004) Peces marinos del Ecuador continental / marine fishes of continental Ecuador. SIMBIOE / NAZCA / IFEA TOMO II, Quito.
  • Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & van der Laan, R. (Eds). 2020. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, Reference. Available from: http: // researcharchive. calacademy. org / research / ichthyology / catalog / fishcatmain. asp (accessed 17 April 2021).
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
  • Romero-Berny, E. I., Schmitter-Soto, J. J., Velazquez-Velazquez, E. & Gomez-Gonzalez, A. E. (2021) Local and regional patterns of fish assemblages in coastal lagoons surrounded by mangroves, Gulf of Tehuantepec in the south Pacific of Mexico. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, 49, 60 - 74. https: // doi. 10.3856 / vol 49 - issue 1 - fulltext- 2488