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Ablennes hians

Description

Ablennes hians (Valenciennes, 1846).

Barred Needlefish or Flat Needlefish. To 122 cm (48 in) TL (Roul et al. 2018). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Aizawa in Nakabo 2002); central Baja California (Collette in Fischer et al. 1995) to northern Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Marine, brackish, and fresh waters (Fricke et al. 2011); depth: typically at surface, to 12 m (39 ft) (Godínez-Domínguez et al. 2000).

Notes

Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 95, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

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  • Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.
  • Chirichigno, F. N. & Velez D, J. (1998) Clave para identificaticar los peces marinos del Peru (segunda edicion, revisada y actualizada). Instituto de Mar de Peru Publicacion Especial.
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  • Godinez-Dominguez, E., Rojo-Vazquez, J., Galvan-Pina, V. & Aguilar-Palomino, B. (2000) Changes in the structure of a coastal fish assemblage exploited by a small scale gillnet fishery during an El Nino - La Nina event. Estuarine and Coastal Shelf Science, 51, 773 - 787. https: // doi. org / 10.1006 / ecss. 2000.0724