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Elops affinis Regan 1909
Description
Elops affinis Regan, 1909.
Machete or Pacific Ladyfish. To 91.4 cm (36 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Mandalay Beach, southern California (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California) to Talara, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Whitehead and Rodríguez-Sánchez in Fischer et al. 1995). Marine and brackish waters (Romero-Berny et al. 2018); depth: 1–10 m (4–33 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max. Robertson and Allen 2002).
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 31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Elopidae
- Genus
- Elops
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Elopiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Regan
- Species
- affinis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Elops affinis Regan, 1909 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- 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.
- Romero-Berny, E. I., Velazquez-Velaquez, E., Anzueto-Calvo, M. J., Urbina-Trejo, E. & Schmitter-Soto, J. J. (2018) The fish fauna of three lagoon-estuarine systems in the northeastern Gulf of Tehuantepec, Mexican south Pacific. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 89, 87 - 100. https: // doi. org / 10.22201 / ib. 20078706 e. 2018.1.1927
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.