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Heteristius cinctus

Description

Heteristius cinctus (Osburn & Nichols, 1916).

Banded Sand Stargazer or Banded Stargazer. To 4.5 cm (1.8 in) TL (Allen and Robertson 1994). Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California to Cabo San Francisco, Ecuador (Dawson 1977), including mouth of Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002). Depth: intertidal to 27 m (89 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Dawson 1977).

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

  • Allen, G. R. & Robertson, D. R. (1994) Fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.
  • Dawson, C. E. (1977) Studies on eastern Pacific sand stargazers (Pisces: Dactyloscopidae) 4. Gillellus, Sindoscopus new genus, and Heteristius with description of new species. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 41, 125 - 160.
  • Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.