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Dactyloscopus pectoralis Gill 1861

Description

Dactyloscopus pectoralis Gill, 1861.

Whitesaddle Stargazer. To at least 5.3 cm (2.1 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2015). Bahía Santa Maria, southern Baja California into Gulf of California (Dawson 1975) to Chiapas, Mexico (González-Acosta et al. 2018). Intertidal to 46 m (151 ft) (min.: Thomson and Lehner 1976; 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 195, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • 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
  • Dawson, C. E. (1975) Studies on eastern Pacific sand stargazers (Pisces: Dactyloscopidae). 2. Genus Dactyloscopus, with descriptions of new species and subspecies. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Bulletin, 22.
  • Gonzalez-Acosta, A. F., Rodiles-Hernandez, R. & Gonzalez-Diaz, A. A. (2018) Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of Chiapas, Mexico. Marine Biodiversity, 48, 1439 - 1454. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 12526 - 016 - 0630 - y
  • Thomson, D. A. & Lehner, C. E. (1976.) Resilience of a rocky intertidal fish community in a physically unstable environment. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 22, 1 - 29.