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Luvarus imperialis Rafinesque 1810
Description
Luvarus imperialis Rafinesque, 1810.
Louvar. To 2 m (78.7 in) TL (Bauchot in Fischer et al. 1995). Circumglobal; Graham Island, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia (Brooks et al. 2016) to Chile (Miller and Lea 1972), including Gulf of California as far northward as Loreto (Shane Anderson, pers. comm. to M.L.). Epipelagic; depth: to 200 m (656 ft) (Roberts et al. 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 208, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Luvaridae
- Genus
- Luvarus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Rafinesque
- Species
- imperialis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Luvarus imperialis Rafinesque, 1810 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- 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.
- Brooks, A., Hanke, G., Foote, C., Gillespie, G. & Bedard, J. (2016) First records of finescale triggerfish (Balistes polylepis) and louvar (Luvarus imperialis) in British Columbia, Canada. Northwestern Naturalist, 97, 7 - 12. https: // doi. org / 10.1898 / 1051 - 1733 - 97.1.7
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- Roberts, C. D., Stewart, A. L. & Struthers, C. D. (Eds.). (2015) The Fishes of New Zealand. Te Papa Press, Wellington.