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Decodon melasma Gomon 1974
Description
Decodon melasma Gomon, 1974.
Blackspot Wrasse. To 32.3 cm (12.7 in) TL (Jiménez Prado and Béarez 2004). Laguna Beach, southern California (Allen and Groce 2001a); Gulf of California (Gomon in Fischer et al. 1995) to Banco de Máncora, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including vicinity of Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California (Gomon in Fischer et al. 1995) and Islas Galápagos (Baldwin and McCosker 2001). Depth: 15–300 m (60–984 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Aburto-Oropeza et al. 2011).
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 176, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Lythraceae
- Genus
- Decodon
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Order
- Myrtales
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Scientific name authorship
- Gomon
- Species
- melasma
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Decodon melasma Gomon, 1974 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Jimenez Prado, P. & Bearez, P. (2004) Peces marinos del Ecuador continental / marine fishes of continental Ecuador. SIMBIOE / NAZCA / IFEA TOMO II, Quito.
- Allen, M. J. & Groce, A. K. 2001 a. First occurrence of blackspot wrasse, Decodon melasma Goman 1974 (Pisces: Labridae) in California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 100, 131 - 136.
- 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.
- Chirichigno, F. N. & Velez D, J. (1998) Clave para identificaticar los peces marinos del Peru (segunda edicion, revisada y actualizada). Instituto de Mar de Peru Publicacion Especial.
- Baldwin, C. C. & McCosker, J. E. (2001) Wrasses of the Galapagos Islands, with the description of a new deepwater species of Halichoeres (Perciformes: Labridae). Revista de Biologia Tropical, 49 (Supplement 1), 89 - 100.
- Aburto-Oropeza, O., Caso, M., Erisman, B. & Ezcurra, E. (2011) Log of the Deep Sea, an Expedition to the Gulf of California. Instituto Nacional de Ecologia, University of California Mexus and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Acero, A. P. & Franke, R. (1995) Nuevos registros de peces cartilaginosos del Parque Nacional Natural Gorgona (Pacifico Colombiano). II. Rayas y descripcion de una nueva especie. In: La Isla de Gorgona, Nuevos Estudios Biologicos, Volume II. Biblioteca Jose Jeronimo Triana, Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional de Bogota, pp. 19 - 21.