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Microspathodon dorsalis
Description
Microspathodon dorsalis (Gill, 1862).
Giant Damselfish. To 37.8 cm (14.9 in) TL (John Snow, pers. comm. to M.L.). Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California (Grove and Lavenberg 1997) and central Gulf of California to Ecuador (Béarez 1996), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997) and many other offshore islands (Robertson and Allen 2002). Depth: intertidal to 25 m (83 ft) (min.: Weaver 1970; max.: Robertson and Allen 2002).
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
- dorsalis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Microspathodon dorsalis (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.
- Bearez, P. (1996) Lista de los peces marinos del Ecuador continental. Revista de Biologia Tropical, 44, 731 - 741.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Weaver, P. L. (1970) Species diversity and ecology of tide pool fishes in three Pacific coastal areas of Costa Rica. Revista de Biologia Tropical, 17, 165 - 185.