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Symphurus melanurus Clark 1936
Description
Symphurus melanurus Clark, 1936.
Drab Tonguefish. To 24.1 cm (9.5 in) TL (Amezcua and Aguirre 2007). Southern Baja California (25°18’N, 112°11’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to northern Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including southern Gulf of California (Munroe et al. in Fischer et al. 1995). Benthic; marine and brackish waters (Munroe et al. in Fischer et al. 1995); depth: 1–65 m (3–213 ft) (min.: Munroe et al. in Fischer et al. 1995; max.: Vargas et al. 2020).
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 223, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Cynoglossidae
- Genus
- Symphurus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Pleuronectiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Clark
- Species
- melanurus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Symphurus melanurus Clark, 1936 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Amezcua, F. & Aguirre, H. (2007) Length structure, sex ratio and size at first maturity for the drab tonguefish Symphurus melanurus (Cynoglossidae) from the North Pacific coast of Mexico. Cybium, 31, 92 - 94.
- Chirichigno, F. N. & Velez D, J. (1998) Clave para identificaticar los peces marinos del Peru (segunda edicion, revisada y actualizada). Instituto de Mar de Peru Publicacion Especial.
- 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.
- Vargas, J. A., Ramirez, A. R., Marin, B., Lopez, M. I. & Wolff, M. (2020) Flatfish (Pleuronectiformes) species richness and depth distribution in the Gulf of Nicoya, Golfo Dulce, and two adjacent areas on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Revista de Biologia Tropical, 68, 1116 - 1130. https: // doi. org / 10.15517 / rbt. v 68 i 4.41391