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Prognathodes falcifer
Description
Prognathodes falcifer (Hubbs & Rechnitzer, 1958).
Scythe Butterflyfish or Scythe-marked Butterflyfish. To 17 cm (6.8 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Santa Cruz Island, southern California (Richards and Engle 2001), along the outer Baja California Coast (Benjamin Frable), eastern Gulf of California (Benjamin Frable, pers. comm. to M.L.), Islas Revillagigeos (Benjamin Frable), and Isla Galápagos (McCosker and Rosenblatt, 2010). Depth: 3–270 m (10–886 ft) (min.: Pérez-España et al. 1996; max.: McCosker et al. 1997).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Chaetodontidae
- Genus
- Prognathodes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Hubbs & Rechnitzer
- Species
- falcifer
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Prognathodes falcifer (Hubbs, 1958) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Rechnitzer, A. B. & Bohlke, J. (1958) Ichthyococcus irregularis, a new gonostomatiine fish from the eastern Pacific. Copeia, 1958, 10 - 15.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Richards, D. V. & Engle, J. M. (2001) New and unusual reef fish discovered at the California Channel Islands during the 1997 - 1998 El Nino. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 100, 175 - 185.
- McCosker, J. E. & Rosenblatt, R. H. (2010) The fishes of the Galapagos Archipelago: an update. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 61, Supplement II, No. 11, 167 - 195.
- Perez-Espana, H., Galvan-Magana, F. & Abitia-Cardenas, L. A. (1996) Temporal and spatial variation in the structure of the rocky reef fish community of the southeast Gulf of California, Mexico. Ciencias Marinas, 22, 273 - 294.
- McCosker, J. E., Merlin, G., Long, D. S., Gilmore, R. G. & Villon, C. (1997) Deep slope fishes collected during the 1995 eruption of Isla Fernandina, Galapagos. Noticias de Galapagos, No. 58, 22 - 26.