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Dormitator latifrons
Description
Dormitator latifrons (Richardson, 1844).
Pacific Fat Sleeper or Spotted Sleeper. To 61 cm (2 ft) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Palos Verdes, southern California to Peru (Bussing 1998), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997); also Lake Merritt, San Francisco Bay area (Long 1996). Benthic; marine, brackish, and fresh waters (Fricke et al. 2020); depth: to 2 m (7 ft) or more (Robertson and Allen 2002).
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 203, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Eleotridae
- Genus
- Dormitator
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Richardson
- Species
- latifrons
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dormitator latifrons (Richardson, 1844) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
- Bussing, W. A. (1998) Freshwater fishes of Costa Rica. Revista Biologia Tropical, 46 (Supplement 2).
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Long, D. L. (1996) A Pacific fat sleeper, Dormitator latifrons (Perciformes: Eleotridae) from Lake Merritt, San Francisco Bay, California. California Fish and Game, 82, 192 - 194.
- Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & van der Laan, R. (Eds). 2020. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, Reference. Available from: http: // researcharchive. calacademy. org / research / ichthyology / catalog / fishcatmain. asp (accessed 17 April 2021).
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.