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Forcipiger flavissimus Jordan & McGregor 1898
Description
Forcipiger flavissimus Jordan & McGregor, 1898.
Forcepsfish or Longnose Butterflyfish. To 22 cm (8.7 in) TL (Allen and Robertson 1994). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Ida in Masuda et al. 1984); Rocas Alijos, southern Baja California (Gotshall 1996) and Cabo San Lucas and in Gulf of California (Thomson et al. 1979) to Chile (Pequeño 1989), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997) and other offshore islands (Robertson and Allen 2002). Depth: 1–145 m (3–476 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; max.: Ralston et al. 1986).
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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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Chaetodontidae
- Genus
- Forcipiger
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Jordan & McGregor
- Species
- flavissimus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Forcipiger flavissimus Jordan, 1898 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.
- Masuda, H., Amaoka, K., Araga, C., Uyeno, T. & Yoshino, T. (Eds). (1984) The Fishes of the Japanese Archipelago. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Gotshall, D. W. (1996) Fishes of Rocas Alijos. In: Smeider, R. W. (Ed.). Rocas Alijos Scientific Results from the Cordell Expedition. Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, pp. 347 - 354.
- Thomson, D. A., Findley, L. T. & Kerstitch, A. N. (1979) Reef Fishes of the Sea of Cortez. John Wiley and Sons, New York.
- Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.
- 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.
- Ralston, S., Gooding, R. M. & Ludwig, G. M. (1986) An ecological survey and comparisons of bottom fish resource assessments (submersible versus handline fishing) at Johnston Atoll. Fishery Bulletin, 84, 141 - 155.