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Xanthichthys mento

Description

Xanthichthys mento (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882).

Crosshatch Triggerfish or Redtail Triggerfish. To 30 cm (11.7 in) TL (Randall 1996). Tropical Pacific Ocean; scattered locations in the eastern Pacific including Ventura, southern California (Miller and Lea 1972), Isla Guadalupe, Rocas Alijos, tip of Baja California, and Colombia (Robertson and Allen 2015). Benthic; depth: surface to 158 m (518 ft) (min.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983; max.: Weijerman et al. 2019).

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 224, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Randall, J. (1996) Shore Fishes of Hawaii. National World Press, Vida.
  • Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
  • 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
  • Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
  • Weijerman, M., Gruss, A., Dove, D., Asher, J., Williams, I. D., Kelley, C. & Drazen, J. (2019) Shining a light on the composition and distribution patterns of mesophotic and subphotic fish communities in Hawai'i. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 630, 161 - 182. https: // doi. org / 10.3354 / meps 13135