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Rhonciscus bayanus
Description
Rhonciscus bayanus (Jordan & Evermann, 1898).
Freshwater Grunt or Purplemouth Grunt. To 41 cm (16.1 in) SL (Jiménez Prado et al. 2015). Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California (Rodríguez-Romero et al. 2011) to Rio Tumbes, Peru (Chirichigno 1974), and at mouth of Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002). Marine, brackish and fresh waters (Jiménez-Prado et al. 2014); depth: 0–10 m (33 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002). We follow Tavera et al. (2018) in moving Pomadasys bayanus Jordan & Evermann, 1898 to the genus Rhonciscus.
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 164, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Haemulidae
- Genus
- Rhonciscus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Jordan & Evermann
- Species
- bayanus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rhonciscus bayanus (Jordan, 1898) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Jordan, D. S. & Evermann, B. W. (1898) The fishes of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the species of fishlike vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama, Parts II and III. Bulletin of National Museum.
- Jimenez Prado, P., Aguirre, W., Laaz-Moncayo, E., Navarrete-Amaya, R., Nugra-Salazar, F., Rebolledo-Monsalve, E., Zarate- Hugo, E., Torres-Noboa, A. & Valdiviezo-Rivera, J. (2015) Guia de peces para aguas continentals en la vertiente occidental del Ecuador. Pontifica Universidad Catolica del Ecuador Sede Esmeraldas; Universidad del Azuay y Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales del Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad. Esmeralda, Ecuador.
- Rodriguez-Romero, J., del Carmen Lopez-Gonzalez, L., Galvan-Magana, F., Sanchez-Gutierrez, F. J., Inohuye-Rivera, R. B. & Perez-Urbiola, J. C. (2011) Seasonal changes in a fish assemblage associated with mangroves in a coastal lagoon of Baja California Sur, Mexico. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, 39, 250 - 260. https: // doi. org / 10.3856 / vol 39 - issue 2 - fulltext- 6
- Chirichigno, F. N. (1974) Clave para identificar los peces marinos del Peru. Instituto del Mar del Peru Informe, No. 44.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Tavera, J., Acero P, A. & Wainwright, P. C. (2018) Multilocus phylogeny, divergence times, and a major role for the benthic-topelagic axis in the diversification of grunts (Haemulidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 121, 212 - 223. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ympev. 2017.12.032