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Caranx latus Agassiz 1831

  • 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

Caranx latus Agassiz 1831 (Fig. 8F). Horse-Eye Jack; Jurel Blanco, Gallego, Jurel Ojón

Vouchers: UCR 1066-010 (1); other collections: KU 22695 (1). Distribution: Atlantic Ocean; from New Jersey, USA, to São Paulo, Brazil, in the western Atlantic, and the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Rocks, the Ascension island, and the Gulf of Guinea, in the eastern Atlantic; entering estuaries and littoral lagoons and ascending river courses; (Nicaragua) Es, BF, IM, To, Sa and SJ (Atlantic); 0–25 masl; Per, Dia, Amp. Occurrence and conservation status: Nat; LC (2019), population trend stable. Literature: Villa (1982: 165; detailed description, including illustrations and an identification key, and information on distribution and ecology), Bussing (1998: 274; brief description, including illustrations and an identification key, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology), van den Berghe (2015: 41; listed, including an illustration and information on distribution and ecology), Robertson & Van Tassell (2019: 3641; detailed description, including illustrations, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology) and Angulo (2021: 45; listed, including information on distribution).

Notes

Published as part of Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D. & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2023, Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families, pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 5376 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10208788

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References

  • Villa, J. (1982) Peces nicaraguenses de agua dulce. Editorial Union Cardoza y Cia. Ltda, Managua, 253 pp.
  • Bussing, W. A. (1998). Freshwater fishes of Costa Rica. Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose´, Costa Rica, 468 pp.
  • van den Berghe, E. (2015) Peces de la cuenca del ri´o Punta Gorda, vertiente del Caribe de Nicaragua. Revista Nicaraguense de Biodiversidad, 3, 1 - 55. [http: // www. bio-nica. info / RevNicaBiodiv / 03 - VandenBerghe-PecesPuntaGorda-final. pdf]
  • Robertson, D. R. & Van Tassell, J. (2019) Shorefishes of the Greater Caribbean: online information system. Version 2.0. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama´. Available from: https: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / caribbean / 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