Paralichthys aestuarius Gilbert & Scofield 1898
Description
Paralichthys aestuarius Gilbert & Scofield, 1898.
Cortez Flounder or Cortez Halibut. To 58.3 cm (23 in) TL (Arellano-Martinez et al. 1997). Lagunas Ojo de Liebre-Guerrero Negro, central Baja California (Arellano-Martinez et al. 1997) to Gulf of California (Hensley in Fischer et al. 1995), and slightly below Gulf of California on mainland side (Robertson and Allen 2015). Galván-Magaña et al. (2000) report on captures from Bahía de La Paz but do not give attributions. Marine and brackish waters (Hensley in Fischer et al. 1995); benthic; depth: intertidal to 55 m (180 ft) (min Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Paralichthyidae
- Genus
- Paralichthys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Pleuronectiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gilbert & Scofield
- Species
- aestuarius
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Paralichthys aestuarius Gilbert, 1898 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Arellano-Martinez, M., De La Cruz-Aguero, J. & Cota-Gomez, V. M. (1997) New records and range extensions of fishes on the Pacific Coast of Mexico. Revista de Biologia Tropical, 45, 936.
- 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.
- 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
- Galvan-Magana, F., Gutierrez-Sanchez, F., Abitia-Cardenas, L. A. & Rodriquez-Romero, J. (2000) The distribution and affinities of the shorefishes of the Baja California Sur lagoons. In: Munawar, M., Lawrence, S. G., Munawar, I. F. & Malle, D. F. (Eds.), Aquatic Ecosystems of Mexico: Status and Scope. Ecovision World Monograph Series. Backhuys Publisher, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 383 - 398.