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Prognathodes falcifer

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Description

Prognathodes falcifer (Hubbs & Rechnitzer, 1958).

Scythe Butterflyfish or Scythe-marked Butterflyfish. To 17 cm (6.8 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Santa Cruz Island, southern California (Richards and Engle 2001), along the outer Baja California Coast (Benjamin Frable), eastern Gulf of California (Benjamin Frable, pers. comm. to M.L.), Islas Revillagigeos (Benjamin Frable), and Isla Galápagos (McCosker and Rosenblatt, 2010). Depth: 3–270 m (10–886 ft) (min.: Pérez-España et al. 1996; max.: McCosker et al. 1997).

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

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FF38FF1C98EAFE9CFE80321D

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/03BE87D6FF38FF1C98EAFE9CFE80321D (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/191883969 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/2792/taxon/03BE87D6FF38FF1C98EAFE9CFE80321D.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Chaetodontidae
Genus
Prognathodes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Perciformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Hubbs & Rechnitzer
Species
falcifer
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Prognathodes falcifer (Hubbs, 1958) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021

References

  • Rechnitzer, A. B. & Bohlke, J. (1958) Ichthyococcus irregularis, a new gonostomatiine fish from the eastern Pacific. Copeia, 1958, 10 - 15.
  • Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
  • 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.
  • McCosker, J. E. & Rosenblatt, R. H. (2010) The fishes of the Galapagos Archipelago: an update. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 61, Supplement II, No. 11, 167 - 195.
  • Perez-Espana, H., Galvan-Magana, F. & Abitia-Cardenas, L. A. (1996) Temporal and spatial variation in the structure of the rocky reef fish community of the southeast Gulf of California, Mexico. Ciencias Marinas, 22, 273 - 294.
  • McCosker, J. E., Merlin, G., Long, D. S., Gilmore, R. G. & Villon, C. (1997) Deep slope fishes collected during the 1995 eruption of Isla Fernandina, Galapagos. Noticias de Galapagos, No. 58, 22 - 26.