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Microspathodon bairdii
Description
Microspathodon bairdii (Gill, 1862).
Bumphead Damselfish or Sheephead Mickey. To 31 cm (12.1 in) TL (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Los Cerritos (23°20’N), southern Baja California (Ruiz-Campos 2010b) to Ecuador (Thomson et al. 2000), including Gulf of California (Schneider and Krupp in Fischer et al. 1995), Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997), and many other offshore islands (Robertson and Allen 2002). Depth: intertidal to 20 m (66 ft) (min.: Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2005; max.: Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, 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 174, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Pomacentridae
- Genus
- Microspathodon
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gill
- Species
- bairdii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Microspathodon bairdii (Gill, 1862) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Ruiz-Campos, G., Gonzalez-Guzman, S., Ramirez-Valdez, A., Gonzalez-Acosta, A. F., Castro-Aguirre, J. L. & de la Cruz- Aguero, J. (2010 b) Composition, density and biogeographic affinities of the rocky intertidal fishes on the western coast of the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico. CalCOFI Reports, 51, 210 - 220.
- 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. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Castellanos-Galindo, G. A., Giraldo, A. & Rubio, E. A. (2005) Community structure of an assemblage of tidepool fishes on a tropical eastern Pacific rocky shore, Columbia. Journal of Fish Biology, 67, 392 - 408. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 0022 - 1112.2005.00735. x