Elops affinis Regan 1909
Creators
- 1. Escuela de Biología, Museo de Zoología / Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Ecología Tropical (CIBET) and Centro de
- 2. Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, 480 Wilson Rd # 13, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA joel. t. betts @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6018 - 8995
- 3. Unidad de Gestión Técnica de Proyectos - Oficina de Relaciones Internacionales y de Cooperación Externa (ORICE / UGETEP),
- 4. Universidad Americana (UAM, Costado Noroeste Camino de Oriente, Managua, Nicaragua edgar. ecologica @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8148 - 3195
- 5. Department of Environment and Development, Zamorano Biodiversity Center. Zamorano University of Tegucigalpa, P. O. Box 93, Honduras evandenberghe @ zamorano. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7566 - 0415
- 6. Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH). Chicago, Illinois, United States of America delias @ fieldmuseum. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4215 - 0384 cmcmahan @ fieldmuseum. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2113 - 8554
Description
Elops affinis Regan 1909. Pacific Ladyfish, Pacific Machete; Machete del Pacífico Oriental, Pez Torpedo, Macabí, Malacho
Vouchers: Not available. Distribution: Eastern Pacific Ocean; from southern California, USA, to northern Peru; entering estuaries and littoral lagoons and ascending river courses; (Nicaragua) PN (Pacific); 0–3 masl; Per, Dia, Amp. Occurrence and conservation status: Nat; DD (2019), population trend unknown. Literature: Villa (1982: 76; detailed description, including illustrations and an identification key, and information on distribution and ecology), Robertson & Allen (2015: 286; detailed description, including illustrations, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology) and Angulo (2021: 20; listed, including information on distribution).
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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. Angulo, Betts, González-Alemán, Castañeda, Berghe, Elías, Mcmahan & Matamoros, 2023
References
- Villa, J. (1982) Peces nicaraguenses de agua dulce. Editorial Union Cardoza y Cia. Ltda, Managua, 253 pp.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: online information system. Version 2.0. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama´. Available from: https: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages (acccesed 18 February 2023)
- Angulo, A. (2021) New records and range extensions to the Costa Rican freshwater fish fauna, with an updated checklist. Zootaxa, 5083 (1), 1 - 72, https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5083.1.1