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Stegastes leucorus

Description

Stegastes leucorus (Gilbert, 1892).

Whitetail Damselfish or Whitetail Major. To 17 cm (6.7 in) TL (Allen and Robertson 1994). Santa Catalina and San Clemente Islands, southern California and Islas Coronados, northern Baja California (Love et al. 2016a); Isla Guadalupe (Allen and Robertson 1994) and Islas San Benito (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California); Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California (Hernández-Velasco et al. 2016), and south-western Baja California; Mazatlán, Mexico (Thomson et al. 1979) and offshore islands (Robertson and Allen 2015). Depth: 0–18 m (60 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; 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 175, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Allen, G. R. & Robertson, D. R. (1994) Fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.
  • Hernandez-Velasco, A., Fernandez-Rivera-Melo, F. J., Melo-Merino, S. M. & Villasenor-Derbez, J. C. (2016) Occurrence of Holacanthus clarionensis (Pomacanthidae), Stegastes leucorus, and Stegastes acapulcoensis (Pomacentridae) at Magdalena Bay, B. C. S., Mexico. Marine Biodiversity Records, 9, 49. https: // doi. org / 10.1186 / s 41200 - 016 - 0062 - 1
  • Thomson, D. A., Findley, L. T. & Kerstitch, A. N. (1979) Reef Fishes of the Sea of Cortez. John Wiley and Sons, New York.
  • 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
  • Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.