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Nicholsina denticulata
Description
Nicholsina denticulata (Evermann & Radcliffe, 1917).
Loosetooth Parrotfish. To 32 cm (12.6 in) TL (Jiménez Prado and Béarez 2004). Santa Catalina Island, southern California (Lea et al. 2001); also Islas San Benito and Isla de Cedros (M.L., unpubl. data) and (mainland) Rocas Chester (27°53’N, 115°04’W), central Baja California (M.L., unpubl. data) to Iquique, northern Chile (Sielfeld et al. 2010), including Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Depth: 1–30 m (4–98 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Robertson and Allen 2015).
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 177, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Scaridae
- Genus
- Nicholsina
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Evermann & Radcliffe
- Species
- denticulata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Nicholsina denticulata (Evermann, 1917) 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.
- Lea, R. N., Erickson, E. D., Boyle, K. & Given, R. (2001) Occurrence of the loosetooth parrotfish, Nicholsina denticulata (Scaridae), from Santa Catalina Island, California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 100, 167 - 169.
- Sielfeld, W., Laudien, J., Vargas, M. & Villegas, M. (2010) El Nino induced changes of the coastal fish fauna off northern Chile and implications for ichthyogeography. Revista de Biologia Marina Oceanografia, 45, S 1, 705 - 722. https: // doi. org / 10.4067 / s 0718 - 19572010000400014
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- 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