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Arothron meleagris

Creators

Description

Arothron meleagris (Anonymous, 1798).

Guineafowl Puffer or Guineafowl Pufferfish. To 45 cm TL (17.7 in) TL (Kuiter and Tonozuka 2001). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to Ogasawara Islands, Japan (Yamada in Nakabo 2002); Todos Santos area (23°24.6’N, 110°13.8’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California); tip of Baja California into central and southern Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002) to Peru (Pequeño 1989), including Islas Galápagos, and other offshore islands (Robertson and Allen 2002). Benthic; depth: 1–144 (3–472 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; max.: Weijerman et al. 2019). The original description is usually ascribed to Lacepède; Fricke et al. (2020) explain why Anonymous is correct.

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 225, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FF71FF5598EAFD98FBBA3384

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF87FFAEFF91FFB5987DFFF2FA413005 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03BE87D6FF71FF5598EAFD98FBBA3384 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/191883208 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/2792/taxon/03BE87D6FF71FF5598EAFD98FBBA3384.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Tetraodontidae
Genus
Arothron
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Tetraodontiformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Anonymous
Species
meleagris
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Arothron meleagris (Anonymous, 1798) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021

References

  • Kuiter, R. H. & Tonozuka, T. (2001) Pictorial Guide to Indonesian Reef Fishes. Zoonetic, Seaford, Victoria.
  • Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
  • Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
  • Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.
  • 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
  • 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).