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Aluterus scriptus

Description

Aluterus scriptus (Osbeck, 1765).

Scrawled Filefish or Scrawled Leatherjacket. To 1.1 m (43.3 in) TL (Lieske and Myers 2002). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Hiyashi in Nakabo 2002); Rocas Alijos, southern Baja California(Gotshall1998),Todos Santos area(23°24.6’N, 110°13.8’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), southern Baja California (Bussing and Lavenberg in Fischer et al. 1995) to Ecuador (Béarez 1996), including Gulf of California (Bussing and Lavenberg in Fischer et al. 1995), Easter Island (Pequeño 1997), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 176 m (577 ft) (min.: Arndt and Fricke 2019; 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

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  • Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
  • Gotshall, D. W. (1998) Sea of Cortez Marine Animals: A Guide to the Common Fishes and Invertebrates - Baja California to Panama. Sea Challengers, Monterey, California.
  • 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.
  • Bearez, P. (1996) Lista de los peces marinos del Ecuador continental. Revista de Biologia Tropical, 44, 731 - 741.
  • Pequeno R., G. (1997) Peces de Chile. Lista sistematica revisada y comentada: addendum. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 32, 77 - 94.
  • Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
  • Arndt, E. & Fricke, R. (2019) Intertidal fishes of Mauritius with special reference to shallow tidepools. Biodiversity Data Journal, 7, e 36754. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / bdj. 7. e 36754
  • 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