Published May 29, 2014 | Version v1
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Albula vulpes

Description

Albula vulpes (Linnaeus 1758) Bonefish

Justification: ZMUC P.17905 (1, 210 mm SL), Frederiksted, 1906; ZMUC P.17907 (1, 465 mm SL), St. Croix, Sept. 1845.

Remarks: Beatty (1944:178) noted occurrence "in Southgate Pond; water brackish."

Distribution: WA (BD, FL, GOM, BA, GA, VI, LA, WC, nSA, sSA).

Notes

Published as part of Smith-Vaniz, William F. & Jelks, Howard L., 2014, Marine and inland fishes of St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands: an annotated checklist, pp. 1-120 in Zootaxa 3803 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3803.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4917823

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Albulidae
Genus
Albula
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Albuliformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
vulpes
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Albula vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Smith-Vaniz & Jelks, 2014

References

  • Beatty, H. A. (1944) The fresh water fishes of St. Croix, V. I. The Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico, 28 (3 / 4), 178 - 179.