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Dactyloscopidae Gill 1859

Authors/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

Family Dactyloscopidae Gill 1859 (Fig. 4M). Sand Stargazers; Miraestrellas de Arena

Description: Body elongate, tapered; up to 15 cm; head usually broad and deep, with protruding, eyes on top, often stalked; mouth upturned, with a protruding lower jaw; mouth often bordered above and/or below by a fringe of skin flaps; operculum with a fringe of skin flaps; pelvic fins with one spine and three soft rays, jugular; dorsal fin long, continuous or divided, with 7–23 spines and 12–36 soft rays; anal fin with 21–41 soft rays (Robertson & Allen 2015, Nelson et al. 2016). Distribution: Marine (rarely brackish or freshwater); warm temperate to tropical waters in North and South America (Nelson et al. 2016). One genus and one species in Nicaraguan freshwaters.

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 68, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10208788

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/038C8788E800FFF6FF792A29FAAC3355

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.10208798 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/10208788 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFB5FFF0E843FFB5FFEE2C1FFFA1347C (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/9ECCB3F7-5481-47C2-8A5A-E9A3F38C31BA (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/038C8788E800FFF6FF792A29FAAC3355 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/219296281 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/279636/taxon/038C8788E800FFF6FF792A29FAAC3355.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Gill
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Perciformes
Family
Dactyloscopidae
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Dactyloscopidae Gill, 1859 sec. Angulo, Betts, González-Alemán, Castañeda, Berghe, Elías, Mcmahan & Matamoros, 2023

References

  • 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)