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Medialuna californiensis
Description
Medialuna californiensis (Steindachner, 1875).
Halfmoon. To 48.3 cm (19 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Vancouver Island, British Columbia (Nagtegaal and Farlinger 1981) to south-western corner of Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002). Depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), intertidal to 44 m (144 ft) (min.: Allen 1999; max.: M.L., unpubl. data). Date sometimes seen as 1876 (Fricke et al. 2020).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Kyphosidae
- Genus
- Medialuna
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Steindachner
- Species
- californiensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Medialuna californiensis (Steindachner, 1875) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- Nagtegaal, D. A. & Farlinger, S. P. (1981) First record of two fishes, Seriola dorsalis and Medialuna californiensis, from waters off British Columbia. Syesis, 13, 206 - 207. [Journal dated 1980 but not issued until 1981.]
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Allen, L. G. (1999) Fisheries Inventory and Utilization of San Diego Bay, San Diego, California. Final report, sampling periods July 1994 to April 1999. Prepared for the United States Navy, Department of Defense, Agreement N 68711 - 94 - LT- 4033.
- Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & van der Laan, R. (Eds). 2020. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, Reference. Available from: http: // researcharchive. calacademy. org / research / ichthyology / catalog / fishcatmain. asp (accessed 17 April 2021).