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Apogon pacificus
Description
Apogon pacificus (Herre, 1935).
Pink Cardinalfish. To 10 cm (3.9 in) TL (Allen and Robertson 1994). San Clemente Island, southern California (Richards and Engle 2001) and mainland off Arrecife Sacramento (29°40’N, 115°47’W) (M.L., unpubl. data), central Baja California to Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California (Grove and Lavenberg 1997) to Pucusana, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002), Islas San Benito (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Depth: 1–96 m (3–315 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; max.: Amezcua Linares 1996). Apogon parri Breder, 1936, is a junior synonym.
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 151, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Apogonidae
- Genus
- Apogon
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Herre
- Species
- pacificus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Apogon pacificus (Herre, 1935) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Allen, G. R. & Robertson, D. R. (1994) Fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.
- Richards, D. V. & Engle, J. M. (2001) New and unusual reef fish discovered at the California Channel Islands during the 1997 - 1998 El Nino. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 100, 175 - 185.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- 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.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Amezcua Linares, F. (1996) Peces Demersales de la Platforma Continental del Pacifico Central de Mexico. Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.