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Chanos chanos chanos (Fabricius 1775

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Description

Chanos chanos (Fabricius, 1775).

Milkfish. To 180 cm (70.9 in) TL (Whitehead in Fischer et al. 1995). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Nakabo in Nakabo 2002); San Pedro, southern California (Duffy and Bernard 1985) to Callao, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Marine, brackish, and fresh waters (Fricke et al. 2011); depth: 0–20 m (66 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2008; max.: Mundy 2005).

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

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URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FFBAFF9E98EAF98CF8A0372C

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)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03BE87D6FFBAFF9E98EAF98CF8A0372C (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/191883068 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/2792/taxon/03BE87D6FFBAFF9E98EAF98CF8A0372C.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Chanidae
Genus
Chanos
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Gonorynchiformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
chanos (Fabricius
Species
chanos
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Chanos chanos (Fabricius, 1775 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021

References

  • Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.
  • Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
  • Duffy, J. M. & Bernard, H. J. (1985) Milkfish, Chanos chanos (Forsskal, 1775), taken in southern California adds new family (Chanidae) to the California marine fauna. California Fish and Game, 71, 122 - 125.
  • 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.
  • Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
  • Fricke, R., Kulbicki, M. & Wantiez, L. (2011) Checklist of the fishes of New Caledonia, and their distribution in the southwest Pacific Ocean (Pisces). Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde A, NS 4, 341 - 463.
  • Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2008) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 1.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa.
  • Mundy, B. C. (2005) Checklist of the Fishes of the Hawaiian Archipelago. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu.