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Paralichthys woolmani Jordan & Williams 1897
Description
Paralichthys woolmani Jordan & Williams, 1897.
Dappled Flounder or Speckled Flounder. To 89 cm (35 in) TL (John Snow, pers. comm. to M.L.). Punta Pequeña (26°14’N, 112°28.5’W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Chimbote, Peru (Chirichigno 1974), including Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Marine and brackish waters (Hensley in Fischer et al. 1995); benthic; depth: 0.6–248 m (2–813 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Herrera-Valdivia et al. 2016).
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 217, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Paralichthyidae
- Genus
- Paralichthys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Pleuronectiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Jordan & Williams
- Species
- woolmani
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Paralichthys woolmani Jordan, 1897 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Chirichigno, F. N. (1974) Clave para identificar los peces marinos del Peru. Instituto del Mar del Peru Informe, No. 44.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- 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.
- Herrera-Valdivia, E., Lopez-Martinez, J. & Morales-Azpeitia, R. (2016) New depth record of the dappled flounder Paralichthys woolmani (Pleuronectiformes: Paralichthyidae) in the Gulf of California, Mexico. Revista de Biologia y Marina y Oceanografia, 51, 699 - 701. https: // doi. org / 10.4067 / s 0718 - 19572016000300022