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Xanthichthys mento
Description
Xanthichthys mento (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882).
Crosshatch Triggerfish or Redtail Triggerfish. To 30 cm (11.7 in) TL (Randall 1996). Tropical Pacific Ocean; scattered locations in the eastern Pacific including Ventura, southern California (Miller and Lea 1972), Isla Guadalupe, Rocas Alijos, tip of Baja California, and Colombia (Robertson and Allen 2015). Benthic; depth: surface to 158 m (518 ft) (min.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983; max.: Weijerman et al. 2019).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Balistidae
- Genus
- Xanthichthys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Jordan & Gilbert
- Species
- mento
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Xanthichthys mento (Jordan, 1882) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Randall, J. (1996) Shore Fishes of Hawaii. National World Press, Vida.
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- Robertson, D. R. and Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 2.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa. http: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages
- Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
- Weijerman, M., Gruss, A., Dove, D., Asher, J., Williams, I. D., Kelley, C. & Drazen, J. (2019) Shining a light on the composition and distribution patterns of mesophotic and subphotic fish communities in Hawai'i. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 630, 161 - 182. https: // doi. org / 10.3354 / meps 13135