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Sphyraena argentea Girard 1854
Description
Sphyraena argentea Girard, 1854.
Pacific Barracuda. To 122 cm (48 in) TL; reported to 152 cm (60 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972), but without documentation. Kodiak Island, Gulf of Alaska (Van Cleve and Thompson 1938) to Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2015), and Islas Revillagigedo (Robertson and Allen 2002). Neritic epipelagic (Mecklenburg et al. 2002); depth: surface (Miller and Lea 1972), intertidal to 38 m (125 ft) (min.: Carlisle et al. 1960; max.: M.L., unpubl. data).
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 209, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Sphyraenidae
- Genus
- Sphyraena
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Girard
- Species
- argentea
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Sphyraena argentea Girard, 1854 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- Van Cleve, R. & W. F. Thompson, W. F. (1938) A record of the pomfret and barracuda from Alaska. Copeia, 1938, 45 - 46.
- 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
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Carlisle, J. G. Jr., Schott, J. W. & Abramson, N. J. (1960) The barred surfperch (Amphistichus argenteus Agassiz) in southern California. California Department of Fish and Game, Fish Bulletin, 109.