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Bothus leopardinus
Description
Bothus leopardinus (Günther, 1862).
Pacific Leopard Flounder or Speckled Flounder. To 23.5 cm (9.3 in) TL (Nieto-Navarro et al. 2010). Boca de Carrizal (23°42’N, 110°38’W), southern Baja California (Castro-Aguirre 1992) to Peru (Robertson and Allen 2002), including Gulf of California (Hensley in Fischer et al. 1995), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Benthic; depth: 1–121 m (3–397 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; max.: Hensley in Fischer et al. 1995).
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 222, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Bothidae
- Genus
- Bothus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Pleuronectiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gunther
- Species
- leopardinus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bothus leopardinus (Gunther, 1862) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Nieto-Navarro, J. T., Zetina-Rejon, M., Arreguin-Sanchez, F., Arcos-Huitron, N. E. & Pena-Sanchez, E. (2010) Length-weight relationship of demersal fish from the eastern coast of the mouth of the Gulf of California. Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science, 5, 494 - 502. https: // doi. org / 10.3923 / jfas. 2010.494.502
- Castro-Aguirre, J. L., Ramirez-Cruz, J. C. & Martinez-Munoz, M. J. (1992) Nuevos datos sobre la distribucion de lenguados (Pisces: Pleuronectiformes) en la costa del oeste de Baja California, Mexico; con aspectos biologicas y zoogeograficos. Anales de la Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologias de Mexico, 37, 97 - 119.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- 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.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.