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Aluterus monoceros
Description
Aluterus monoceros (Linnaeus, 1758).
Unicorn Filefish or Unicorn Leatherjacket.To 76 cm (29.9 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Circumglobal; Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California), western Gulf of California northward to at least as far as Santa Rosalia (John Snow, pers. comm. to M.L.), to Chile, Isla del Cocos, Isla Malpelo, and Islas Revillagigedo (Robertson and Allen 2002). Depth: 0–150 m (492 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; max: Matsuura in Carpenter and De Angelis 2016).
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 224, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Family
- Monacanthidae
- Genus
- Aluterus
- Species
- monoceros
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Aluterus monoceros (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Carpenter, K. E. & De Angelis, N. (Eds.). (2016) The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. Volume 2: Bivalves, Gastropods, Hagfishes, Sharks, Batoid Fishes, and Chimaeras, Volume 3: Bony Fishes Part 1 (Elopiformes to Scorpaeniformes). Volume 4: Bony Fishes Part 2 (Perciformes to Tetradontiformes) and Sea turtles. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes, Rome, FAO.