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Sphoeroides lobatus
Description
Sphoeroides lobatus (Steindachner, 1870).
Longnose Puffer. To at least 30.3 cm (11.9 in) TL (John Snow, pers. comm. to M.L.). Redondo Beach, southern California (Grove and Lavenberg 1997) to Salinas (33°57’S), central Chile (Brito 2003), including southern and central Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Marine and brackish waters (Fricke et al. 2020); depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 1–107 m (3–351 ft) (min.: Allen and Robertson 1994; max.: Amezcua Linares 1996).
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 226, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Tetraodontidae
- Genus
- Sphoeroides
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Steindachner
- Species
- lobatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Sphoeroides lobatus (Steindachner, 1870) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Brito, J. L. (2003) Nuevos registros de Balistes polylepis (Balistidae), Sphoeroides lobatus (Tetraodontidae), Mola mola y M. ramsayi (Molidae) en San Antonio, Chile (Pisces, Tetraodontiformes). Investigaciones Marinas, Valparaiso, 31, 77 - 83.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & van der Laan, R. (Eds). 2020. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, Reference. Available from: http: // researcharchive. calacademy. org / research / ichthyology / catalog / fishcatmain. asp (accessed 17 April 2021).
- Allen, G. R. & Robertson, D. R. (1994) Fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.
- Amezcua Linares, F. (1996) Peces Demersales de la Platforma Continental del Pacifico Central de Mexico. Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.