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Chloroscombrus chrysurus
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Chloroscombrus chrysurus (Linnaeus, 1776)
Reference material. Accra, January 1930 (Irvine 27)— BMNH 1930.3.24.21–24 (six: 55.5–66.5 mm SL); Accra, 1935 (Irvine 307); mouth of River Ancobra, January 1939 (Akpabla A 14)— BMNH 1939.7.12.15 (one: 193 mm SL).
Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Mauritania to Angola. Also occurs in subtropical and tropical western Atlantic (Quéro et al., 1990).
On average about 6100 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making it an important fishery species in terms of catch.
Notes
Published as part of Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C. & Abohweyere, P. O., 2003, A revision of F. R. Irvine's Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London, pp. 2213-2267 in Journal of Natural History 37 (18) on page 2239, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, http://zenodo.org/record/5263410
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.1080/00222930210138359 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5263410 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFC521730969C10E3C7BFF9DFF8C2910 (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03FC590B0972C1153E65FDE3FBE52A9B (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BMNH
- Material sample ID
- BMNH 1939.7
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Carangidae
- Genus
- Chloroscombrus
- Species
- chrysurus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chloroscombrus chrysurus (Linnaeus, 1776) sec. Edwards, Gill & Abohweyere, 2003
References
- Four species are likely to be found in the Gulf of Guinea (Shipp, 1981) and two were recorded by Irvine from Ghana. On average about 75 tonnes of triggerfishes are reported to be caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000).