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Kuhlia mugil

Description

* Kuhlia mugil (Forster, 1801).

Barred Flagtail or Fivebar Flagtail. To 50 cm (19.7 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2008). Indo-Pacific (Randall and Randall 2001); western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Mochizuki in Masuda et al. 1984); Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California (De La Cruz-Agüero et al. 1997); Costa Rica to Colombia (Allen and Robertson 2015), including Islas Galápagos and other offshore islands (Allen and Robertson 2015). Marine, brackish, and fresh waters (Fricke et al. 2011); depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), intertidal to at least 26 m (85 ft) (min.: Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2014; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California).

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

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References

  • Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2008) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 1.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa.
  • Randall, J. & Randall, H. A. (2001) Review of the fishes of the genus Kuhlia (Perciformes: Kuhliidae) of the central Pacific. Pacific Science, 55, 227 - 256. https: // doi. org / 10.1353 / psc. 2001.0024
  • Masuda, H., Amaoka, K., Araga, C., Uyeno, T. & Yoshino, T. (Eds). (1984) The Fishes of the Japanese Archipelago. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
  • De La Cruz-Aguero, J., Martinez, M. A., Cota-Gomez, V. M. & De La Cruz-Aguero, G. (1997) Catalogo de los Peces Marinos de Baja California Sur. Centro Interdiscipinario de Ciencias Marinas.
  • 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
  • Fricke, R., Kulbicki, M. & Wantiez, L. (2011) Checklist of the fishes of New Caledonia, and their distribution in the southwest Pacific Ocean (Pisces). Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde A, NS 4, 341 - 463.
  • Castellanos-Galindo, G. A., Giraldo, A. & Zapata, F. A. (2014) Tidepool fish assemblages of Gorgona Island, Colombian Pacific coast: a local and regional comparison). Revista de Biologia Tropical, 62 (Supplement 1), 373 - 390. https: // doi. org / 10.15517 / rbt. v 62 i 0.16362